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We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
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Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.
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We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
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The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.
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I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people
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Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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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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Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
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And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.
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Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.
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If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week
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