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- Will Rogers Quotes

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! 
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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. 
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You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. 
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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. 
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A fool and his money are soon elected. 
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. 
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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. 
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. 
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. 
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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. 
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. 
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you. 
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. 
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. 
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The United States never lost a war or won a conference. 
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About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. 
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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. 
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. 
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The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. 
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. 
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. 
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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. 
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? 
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If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production. 
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. 
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. 
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. 
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there. 
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. 
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If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. 
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. 
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. 
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. 
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The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. 
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. 
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. 
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. 
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. 
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?" 
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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. 
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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. 
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? 
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. 
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. 
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do. 
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The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it. 
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. 
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. 
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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. 
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats. 
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff. 
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The best way out of a difficulty is through it. 
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. 
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. 
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. 
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse. 
- Will Rogers Quotes So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. 
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times. 
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. 
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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! 
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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. 
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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. 
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. 
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? 
- Will Rogers Quotes

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. 
- Will Rogers Quotes

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. 
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