"The man that found the 726-carat diamond in……" — Will Rogers
"The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat."
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622 Quotes by Will Rogers
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to…
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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you…
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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;…
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have…
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries,…
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There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
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The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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