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You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
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Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise what they would do if they got in. But the Republicans have to promise what they would do and then explain why they haven't already done it.
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Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.
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Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is Yokel, but San Francisco is City at Heart.
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You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
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We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.
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A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
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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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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.
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Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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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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Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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