George Will Quotes

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• It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
• We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
• The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
• Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
• We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to…
• The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is…
• Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
• Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
• Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our…
• I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the…
• Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It…
• Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
• Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
• According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
• She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed…
• There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
• All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
• The liberal agenda: Being good to liberals
• All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.
• Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged…

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