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There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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You know Lincoln's famous remark about God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them? Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.
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Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.
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Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.
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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
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If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.
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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
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They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.
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There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
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A man only learns by two things one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
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Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don't divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.
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