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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

Will Rogers

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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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The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.
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Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.
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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
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If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.
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What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?
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If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
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Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
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Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
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Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.
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An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
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You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.
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