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

Will Rogers

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Journalist
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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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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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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
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We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.
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On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.
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There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
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