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Will Rogers Inspirational Quotes (685)

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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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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
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What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.
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It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.
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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
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Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
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Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.
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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
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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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Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
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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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The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
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You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.
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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
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I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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