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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
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Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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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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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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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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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
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Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
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All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.
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There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
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People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.
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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 a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.
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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.
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A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.
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