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Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
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Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.
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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
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Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely
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When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.
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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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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
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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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The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.
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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
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If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
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