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You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Will Rogers

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!
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It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.
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I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.
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