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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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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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Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
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Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
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The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
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We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
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Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.
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When you're through learning, you're through.
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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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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.
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Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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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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