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Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.
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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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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
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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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A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
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Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
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Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.
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Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
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American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
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I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.
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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
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The US is safest when Congress is in recess.
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About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
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