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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.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
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A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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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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Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
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We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
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If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.
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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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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
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That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.
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Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.
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This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.
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Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
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