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
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The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree.
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Families entrust the elderly to these facilities for 24-7 care. When the care is neglectful and that leads to all this suffering and problems, the family feels betrayed.
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I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time.
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A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.
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We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
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Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.
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Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity.
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Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
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Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
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There is a declining number of Americans paying income taxes, while more and more people are dependent for things that fewer and fewer people are paying for.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.