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Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Journalist
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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.
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There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?
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I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart
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The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
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Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
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There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'
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There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.
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There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
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