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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
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Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
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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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Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.
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I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
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A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.
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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
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We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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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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Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.
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The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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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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If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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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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