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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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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
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The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
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It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about it's the return of my investment
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I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
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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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I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
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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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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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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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Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.
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Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
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And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But 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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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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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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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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Common sense ain't common.
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