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A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
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If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
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I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.
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Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.
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The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.
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Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise what they would do if they got in. But the Republicans have to promise what they would do and then explain why they haven't already done it.
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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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If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
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A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
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I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.
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You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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