The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
- Carl Rogers - In Art
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
- Will Rogers - In Business
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
- Will Rogers - In Business
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
- Will Rogers - In Business
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
- Will Rogers - In Business
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
- Will Rogers - In Education
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
- Will Rogers - In Education
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
- Carl Rogers - In Education
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
- Will Rogers - In Government
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
- Will Rogers - In Government
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers - In Government
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There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
- Adela Rogers St. Johns - In Marriage
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
- Will Rogers - In Movies
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers - In Politics
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers - In Politics
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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
- Will Rogers - In Politics
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
- Will Rogers - In Politics
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People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
- Rogers Hornsby - In Sports
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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
- Rogers Hornsby - In Sports
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers - In War
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