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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.
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Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.
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Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.
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Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.
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If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals
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A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
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A politician is just like a pickpocket it's almost impossible to get him to reform.
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We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.
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Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
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There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
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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 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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