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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.
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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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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
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The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.
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I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.
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Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.
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You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.
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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.
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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
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