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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
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The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?
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Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.
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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
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If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.
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People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
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We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.
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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
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Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is Yokel, but San Francisco is City at Heart.
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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals
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Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.
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