George F. Will
Quotes by George F. Will
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In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. James Morris
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In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos
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There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.
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People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
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Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.
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Talk about presidents taking the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
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Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.
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People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
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Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.
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In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos
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There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.
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Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.
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In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. James Morris
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Talk about presidents taking the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
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The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.
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There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.
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All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.
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Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
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The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany
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History is spread across this country as evenly as honey on toast.
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