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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
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Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.
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When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
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The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.
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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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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it
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Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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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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We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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