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You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.
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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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One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.
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Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
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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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There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.
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I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.
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If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.
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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
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I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.
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Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
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Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
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We were primitive people when I was a kid. There were only a mighty few known diseases. Gunshot wounds, broken legs, toothache, fits, and anything that hurt you from the lower end of your neck down was known as a bellyache.
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Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.
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When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely
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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
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You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
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We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.
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We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
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The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.
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I arrived at my hut in Beverly Hills just in time to keep real estate men from plotting off and selling my front yard. They will sell you anything or anybody's in the world as long as they can get a first payment... It used to be only Iowa that was out here but now they have three or four adjoining states interested and they are here, too. Real estate agents - you never saw as many in your life; they are as thick as bootleggers.
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In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
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You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
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Born:
November 4, 1879
Died:
August 15, 1935
(aged 55)
Bio:
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator, and stage and motion picture actor.
Known for:
The Bay
Judge Priest (1934)
State Fair (1933)
The Headless Horseman (1922)
Life Begins at 40 (1935)
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