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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.


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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 An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
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