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George Will Quotes
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Famous George Will Quotations
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George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
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- A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. George Will »
- Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. George Will »
- Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings. George Will »
- Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. George Will »
- In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) George Will »
- It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. George Will »
- Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. George Will »
- The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George Will »
- The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. George Will »
- This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. George Will »
- 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 know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge. George Will »
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