George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
eye gun bulls
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
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Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
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Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
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A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
roots curves tree
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
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They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.
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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
doubt beginnings-and-ends ends
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
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If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.
Nothing worth noting.
thinking stuff
Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?
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Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
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The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.
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It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.