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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Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.
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Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
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Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
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I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
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I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.
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By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
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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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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.