NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.


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Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.
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brings in millions of dollars a year.
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the tens of millions of dollars.
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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- w...
WILL ROGERS
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
WILL ROGERS
Compared to them I
WILL ROGERS
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...
WILL ROGERS
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR C...
WILL ROGERS
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE WILL
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
WILL ROGERS
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
WILL DURANT
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
WILL ROGERS
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
WILL ROGERS
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
GEORGE WILL
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction...
GEORGE WILL
I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
WILL ROGERS
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE WILL
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say foot...
GEORGE WILL
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
GEORGE WILL
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT
The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
WILL ROGERS