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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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It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction the only one stuck is the last one.
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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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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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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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You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.
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The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
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We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.
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When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.
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The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
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In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.
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Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
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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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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
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The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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