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Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in this joyful season. It's the start of a New Year of trials and tribulations, and if everybody that does anything gets caught, it will be mostly trials.
-Will Rogers
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Banks / Banking
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There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.
-Will Rogers, April 2, 1929
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See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.
-Will Rogers, January 22, 1932
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Belief
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There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
-Will Rogers
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
-Will Rogers, March 1, 1931
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Deception/Lying
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There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a "Deliberate Lie," why it was an "Exaggerated Falsehood."
-Will Rogers, November 13, 1932
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Diplomacy
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
-Will Rogers
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Economics
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The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice.
Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.
-Will Rogers, August 12, 1929
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Effort
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"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers
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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have lost anybody anywhere and don’t know where they are, they are in Hollywood trying to get in the movies.
-Will Rogers
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Gossip
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Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
-Will Rogers
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
-Will Rogers
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Government
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Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.
-Will Rogers, October 20, 1929
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
-Will Rogers
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Hardship
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This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.
-Will Rogers, December 31, 1933
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Heroes/Heroism
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
-Will Rogers
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History
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
-Will Rogers
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Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
-Will Rogers, April 14, 1935
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Ideas
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Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
-Will Rogers
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We have some great ideas, but most of 'em come too late to do us any good.
-Will Rogers
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Law
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Compared to them I’m an amateur, and the thing about my jokes is that they don’t hurt anybody. You can say they’re not funny or they’re terrible or they’re good or whatever it is, but they don’t do no harm. But with Congress—every time they make a joke it’s a law. And every time they make a law it’s a joke.
-Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom, chapter 9, pp. 156–57
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We are always saying: "Let the Law take its Course" but what we really mean is: "Let the Law take OUR Course."
-Will Rogers, February 19, 1935
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
-Will Rogers
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Learning
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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 to see for themselves.
-Will Rogers
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Life
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
-Will Rogers
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Military, the
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
-Will Rogers
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Politics
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If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
-Will Rogers, July 15, 1923
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
-Will Rogers
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Reading
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"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
-Will Rogers
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Religion
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
-Will Rogers
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
-Will Rogers
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Shopping
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
-Will Rogers
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Voting
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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.
-Will Rogers
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Books by and about Will Rogers
