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" Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. "
Will Rogers
Take
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Week
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" An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. "
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" I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. "
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" I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times. "
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" In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. "
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" Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. "
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" The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. "
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" The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. "
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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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" The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. "
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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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" 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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" This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. "
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" Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. "
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