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A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
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When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
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There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people
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A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
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Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
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The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
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You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
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A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
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