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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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All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.
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What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?
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I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
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Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.
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The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.
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And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.
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A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
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They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.
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If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
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I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
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I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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