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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
Actor
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Journalist
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Oklahoma
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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
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Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
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