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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

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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

– George Will

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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

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

– George Will

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Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

– George Will

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

– George Will

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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 Will

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

– George Will

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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 Will

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

– George Will

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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 Will

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The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.

– George Will

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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

– George Will

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

– George Will

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

– George Will

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

– George Will

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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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Quotes from the news wire:

Seven-point-nine percent inflation. The week that is announced Congress passes another 1.5 trillion tranche of spending.

– George Will

Found on FOX News 2 years ago

What Donald Trump's revolutionary effect has been [ is ] to make things acceptable that were unthinkable until recently.

– George Will

Found on CNN 5 years ago

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 8 years ago

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 8 years ago

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 8 years ago

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