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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
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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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We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.
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The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.
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I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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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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