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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Say, wait a minute. This heat out here is just about as tough as it is anywhere. Went down and spoke at some lawyers' meeting last night. They didn't think much of my little squib yesterday about driving the shysters out of their profession. They seemed to kinder doubt just who would have to leave. Pretty serious, some of `em. But the big percentage are regular guys. Had three ex-Cabinet members there from three different Presidents, Hurley, Secretary of War under Mr. Hoover; Wilbur, Secretary of Navy under Mr. Coolidge; and Will Hays, who served under Mr. Harding.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I have looked politics and the movies both over and, while they have much in common I believe politics is the most common, so I will stay with the movies.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Politics is the only sporting event in the world where they don’t pay off for second money; a man to run second in any other event in the world it’s an honor. But any time he runs second for President it’s not an honor. It’s a pity.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I love horses and I only ask--don't let me know which one we are eating today.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Why, every lot out here has its own agent. Agents get rich out here just off the various commissions on one lot. If an agent handles two lots he opens up a branch office and has an assistant.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
She sat down at the piano and began to run over the first act of the Walkure, the last of his roles they had practiced together; playing listlessly and absently at first, but with gradually increasing seriousness. Perhaps it was the still heat of the summer night, perhaps it was the heavy odors from the garden that came in through the open windows; but as she played there grew and grew the feeling that he was there, beside her, standing in his accustomed place. In the duet at the end of the first act she heard him clearly: Thou art the Spring for which I sighed in Winter's cold embraces. Once as he sang it, he had put his arm about her, his one hand under her heart, while with the other he took her right from the keyboard, holding her as he always held Sieglinde when he drew her toward the window. She had been wonderfully the mistress of herself at the time; neither repellent nor acquiescent. She remembered that she had rather exulted, then, in her self-control--which he had seemed to take for granted, though there was perhaps the whisper of a question from the hand under her heart. Thou art the Spring for which I sighed in Winter's cold embraces. Caroline lifted her hands quickly from the keyboard, and she bowed her head in them, sobbing.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
Wernher von Braun, fully Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun
It [space travel] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
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Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
To be sure, the Bishop was a little theatrical in his humility, as he had been in his grandeur; but that was his way, Auclair reflected, and, after all, nobody can help his way. If a man admits his mistakes, that is a great deal...
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Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.