82 ordspråk av George F. Will
George F. Will
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
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Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
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Being sixty in Washington sometimes feels like having had one year's experience sixty times. However, age can confer a certain calm about the passing circus, a preference for understatement and for people with low emotional metabolisms.
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Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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Convictions cause conflict.
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Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.
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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 sinfulness.
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Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.
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If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
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If you want to get elected president, you've got to think up some memorable homily so that school kids can be pestered into memorizing it, even if they don't know what it means
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