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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Will Rogers

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.
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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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The Ways & Means Committee is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.
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I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.
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When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
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The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
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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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I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
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One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
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There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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