“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”

—  Will Rogers

As quoted in Creative Leadership : Mining the Gold in Your Workforce (1998) by A. S. Migs Damiani, p. 168
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American humorist and entertainer 1879–1935

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