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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.
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Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
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The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
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I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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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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Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.
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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
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American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
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Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.
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Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
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