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People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
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Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
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We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
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I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.
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A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.
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I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.
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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
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The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
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Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.
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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.
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That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.
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We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
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The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.
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