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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
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There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
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The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
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You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.
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There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
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It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.
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If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.
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No party is as bad as its leaders.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
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America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.
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I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your Gags, and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
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