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A company is known by the people it keeps.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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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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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
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It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.
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The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.
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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
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There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
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A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
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You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.
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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
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