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When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.
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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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Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.
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The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
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A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.
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And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.
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There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
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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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Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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We have the best Congress that money can buy.
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The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
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Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.
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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
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There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
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