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People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

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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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We do more talking progress than we do progressing.
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What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.
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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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Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.
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Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
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Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
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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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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
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You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.
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Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
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One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.
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We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
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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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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
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Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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