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People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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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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I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.
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What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
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The US is safest when Congress is in recess.
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It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.
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