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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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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
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Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
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Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.
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The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.
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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
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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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One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.
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The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.
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We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.
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The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.
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Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
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Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is Yokel, but San Francisco is City at Heart.
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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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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Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.
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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 woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
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