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There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
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Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
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The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
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A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.
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