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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.
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It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
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We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.
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Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.
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The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
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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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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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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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The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
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I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.
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We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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