"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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Will Rogers

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“I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.”
“It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.”
“All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.”
“Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.”
“It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect”
“When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.”

Source : "Bay Area theater leaders on their inspirations" by Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. December 15, 2013.
“When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.”
“Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.”

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