"For as long as I can remember the……" — George Will
"For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!""
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175 Quotes by George Will
George Will has 175 quotes on this site.
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did,…
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it…
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible…
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of…
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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral…
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the…
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's…
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More Balance Quotes
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I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can…
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
— Irving Babbitt
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
— Irving Babbitt
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
— Michelle Bachelet
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action…
— James A. Baldwin
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I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my…
— Drew Barrymore
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
— Max Beerbohm
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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