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• Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

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  Running, Business, Home

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• Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

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  Beautiful, Horse, Men

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• I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.

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  Country, Horse, Feel Better

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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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  Real, World, Investment

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• Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.

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  Real, Ocean, Littles

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• The country has gone sane and got back to horses.

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  Country, Horse, Gone

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• If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

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  Business, Enough, Bigs

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

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  Inspiration, People, Ideals

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• There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.

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  Character, Interesting, World

  Will Rogers (1982). “Writings”

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• Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

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  Agriculture, Relief, Needs

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

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  Country, Wall, Business

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• What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

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  Agriculture, Trying, Birth Control

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• I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

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  Country, Business

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• Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.

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  Country, Business, Ideas

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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  War, United States, Lost

  Remark after the Versailles Peace Conference. "Wit and Wisdom". Book edited by Jack Lait, 1936.

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• These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

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  Dust, Agriculture, Storm

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• Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

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  Agriculture, Plowing, More Time

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

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  Agriculture, Worry, Fit

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• Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

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  Sports, Offering, Politics

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• I don't know what humor is.

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  Wise, Knows

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• There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating

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  World, Eating

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• Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

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  Horse, Gasoline, Farmers

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• A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.

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  Inspirational, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

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  Horse, Doors, Years

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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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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  Oasis, Arizona, Grows

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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