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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
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America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
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We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
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Lord, let me live until I die.
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There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.
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An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.
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The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.
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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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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 may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.
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