Will Rogers quote: "There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it."

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
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I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
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Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
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Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
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We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
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Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
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I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
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And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
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I never met a man I didn't like.
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
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Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
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Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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No party is as bad as its leaders.
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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
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If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
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All I know is what I read in the papers.
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The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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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 o...
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Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
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There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
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There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
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Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers.
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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoir...
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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- w...
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
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Compared to them I
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...
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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR C...
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My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
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The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
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There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
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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...
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can ne...
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Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
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Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Live so that you wouldn
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they c...
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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have los...
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something ...
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't...
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomac...
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.
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Lord, let me live until I die.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
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You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
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There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a h...
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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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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't ...
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session ...
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Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in...
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Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting ...
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You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
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Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold
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You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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All I know is what I read in the papers
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Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meet...
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The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on ...
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a croo...
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...
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Common sense ain't common.
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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every mor...
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
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Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
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For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the po...
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each ot...
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ...
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutio...
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it...
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you...
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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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One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their...
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress peo...
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they do...
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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising a...
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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising ...
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress ...
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then se...
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United Stat...
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live o...
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
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Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we neve...
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a Hous...
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, a...
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplo...
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If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper t...
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I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.
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Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifu...
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