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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
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There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
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My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
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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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In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
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I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.
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He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
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A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
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You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
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