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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

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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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Oologah
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.
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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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The country has gone sane and got back to horses.
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You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.
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Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.
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If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
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They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.
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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
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If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
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In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.
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I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.
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Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
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The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing.
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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