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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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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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I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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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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There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
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In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
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You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.
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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
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Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
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Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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I don't know what humor is.
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We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.
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Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
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Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.
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Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
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