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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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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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There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'
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But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.
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Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
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