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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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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
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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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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
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I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
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We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
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No party is as bad as its leaders.
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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
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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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Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
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It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
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The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
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Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.
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If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
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