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You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
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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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If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
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We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
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There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
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He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
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Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
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