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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
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With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.
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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
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I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
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Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
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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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There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.
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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
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