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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Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.
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An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.
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It doesn't mean much to our coaches, and I didn't hear the kids mention it once all week. Whether we're 1 or 10, we're going to practice the same way.
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The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government
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years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.
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When he arrived on campus in September 2002, I was assigned to mentor him about the practices and policies of higher education. The mentoring was reciprocated. He elevated my understanding by sharing his knowledge and experiences from his broad professional and academic training.
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We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.
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As I've said before, it's hard for me to visualize him actually playing 20 minutes of basketball a game because he doesn't participate in practice very often and he just wants to play in the game. That philosophically doesn't make any sense to me. I think he has a big- time heart. I think he's a big-time competitor and he did a hell of a job in the second half against Brand in Game 1.
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While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.
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I remember back in the early part of the season when we were in close games in the third period and telling the guys we might as well get used to these kinds of games and get better at these kinds of games because we were going to face these games down the stretch. Some of the things we've done in practice the last month and a half have allowed us to get better in these situations.
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The nature of the failures and the practices we saw was just egregious, completely outrageous.
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If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.
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The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.