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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
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The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
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Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
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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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They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
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I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
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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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