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If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Journalist
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Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
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After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.
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I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
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The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.
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In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.
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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
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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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There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
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A company is known by the people it keeps.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.
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A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.
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There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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