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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.
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I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
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The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.
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Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing.
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
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More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
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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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My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.
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The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.
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Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.
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Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.
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Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
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If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
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When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
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