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It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
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My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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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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I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
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I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!
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