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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
Politician
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
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In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
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When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.
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Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
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The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
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I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
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There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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A man only learns by two things one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
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Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
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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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