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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
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Film Producer
Journalist
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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.
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My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.
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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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Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.
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A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.
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