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Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals
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All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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The US is safest when Congress is in recess.
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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
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