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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Will Rogers

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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Experience Happen Hard Time Inspirational
Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.
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Inspirational Life Serious Work Hard
Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans.
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Politics Reason Vote
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?’
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Country Job Morning President
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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Account Democracy Government Nation People
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
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Buy Earn Human Nature Impress Money People
There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
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Failure Formula Guarantee Please Try
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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Clean Country Mind Need
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.
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Farmer Optimistic
Work to make a living; serve to make a life.
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Life Live Serve Work
There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.
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Government Match Men Play
The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
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Fight Ignorant Quick
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
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Politics Truth
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
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Death Difference Government Meet Tax Time
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Fact Government Joke Report Watch
The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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Country Office Politics
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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Change Comedy People Politics Serious
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
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Inspirational Right Sit Track
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won’t work.
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Community Ideas Prohibition Work
Always drink upstream from the herd.
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Drink Funny Leadership
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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Philosophy Trouble
We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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Applaud Hero Sit
Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
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Funny Happen Hard Time Tragedy
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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Chance Insult One Liner Shut Up
A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
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Business Planning Vision
Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
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Chair Deserve Funny High Five Face People
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
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Mess Stupidity Trouble

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