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About Will Rogers

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William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorist. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he...

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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

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Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

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The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.

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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Punishment is directed primarily at the potentially guilty.

—Michel Foucault

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As one reads history… one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond this one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy,… or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit.

—Abbie Hoffman

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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

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