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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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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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There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.
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I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.
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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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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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