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Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
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Journalist
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
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Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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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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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.
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Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.
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One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.
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