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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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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. – George WillRate it:
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 WillRate it:
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. – George WillRate it:
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. – George WillRate it:
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 WillRate it:
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. – George WillRate it:
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. – George WillRate it:
Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George WillRate it:
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George WillRate it:
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. – George WillRate it:
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 action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life. – George WillRate it:
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. – George WillRate it:
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction. – George WillRate it:
Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. – George WillRate it:
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism. – George WillRate it:
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples. – George WillRate it:
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. – George WillRate it:
The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. – George WillRate it:
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. – George WillRate it:
There are times when u you will fear your own shadow during night ,, never let your trust ruin you into the dark- shibin varghese – George WillRate it:
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes – George WillRate it:
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. – George WillRate it:
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 WillRate it:

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

– George WillRate it:

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 WillRate it:

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

– George WillRate it:

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

– George WillRate it:

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 WillRate it:

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

– George WillRate it:

Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

– George WillRate it:

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

– George WillRate it:

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

– George WillRate it:

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

– George WillRate it:

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 action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

– George WillRate it:

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

– George WillRate it:

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

– George WillRate it:

Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

– George WillRate it:

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

– George WillRate it:

The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

– George WillRate it:

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

– George WillRate it:

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.

– George WillRate it:

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

– George WillRate it:

There are times when u you will fear your own shadow during night ,, never let your trust ruin you into the dark- shibin varghese

– George WillRate it:

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

– George WillRate it:

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

– George WillRate it:

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 WillRate it:

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Fox News Sunday was puzzling doubly so because House Speaker Paul Ryan still did n’t endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, after Trump went after the Mexican judge from northern Indiana, then House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed him and I decided that, in fact, that this is not my party anymore. I changed my registration to unaffiliated 23 days ago. – George Will	Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines
The president is doing all that the country will permit him to do. That is, air support and logistical support, beyond that, they will put up with very little. Except… [American troops] are still getting killed. – George Will	Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics
They're supposedly advising and assisting, but [this is a] conflict where there are no static lines, as there were in World War II or in the trench warfare of World War I. – George Will	Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics
He speaks in such modulated, dulcet tones that we tend to sometimes miss some of the harsh things he is saying, so he’s got a rhetorical record that is going to get more scrutiny. – George Will	Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics
Bernie Sanders is a curious case. If there was a federal truths and labeling agency, they ought to look at this man. – George Will	Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics
She wants a twenty-third increase in the minimum wage since 1938, free community college, which means someone else to pay for it besides the people getting the education, and at the end of it all, inequality is what she’s going to stress. – George Will	Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics
I don’t think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights. – George Will	Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics
We could be reaching now a kind of tipping point, starting with the attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels in May, killing 124 children in Pakistan. Against that, we're now seeing a reaction. – George Will	Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics
When SiSi of Egypt, head of the most important nation in the world for the Islamic world… gives an extraordinary speech saying this is a disgrace what's being done and there must be a reformation in Islam, it is just possible we've reached a critical mass of horror and things are going to change. – George Will	Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

Fox News Sunday was puzzling doubly so because House Speaker Paul Ryan still did n’t endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, after Trump went after the Mexican judge from northern Indiana, then House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed him and I decided that, in fact, that this is not my party anymore. I changed my registration to unaffiliated 23 days ago.

– George Will

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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The president is doing all that the country will permit him to do. That is, air support and logistical support, beyond that, they will put up with very little. Except… [American troops] are still getting killed.

– George Will

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Politics

They're supposedly advising and assisting, but [this is a] conflict where there are no static lines, as there were in World War II or in the trench warfare of World War I.

– George Will

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Politics