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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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.
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These are the rules for this. The first rule was I could only park for my walks in public places like this one.
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People, they want me to teach school, but no matter what I could teach - I can teach you to be a lawyer, because there are certain rules. There are certain rules in being a doctor or in building houses. But, in making a picture, there are no rules. It's just your particular instinctual feeling for what it is.
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Wink asked me once to put together a board game or something like that which followed our rules, ... It probably would have made a few bucks if we could have copyrighted or patented it.
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Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work.
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It's a cultural movement of a child. They follow certain rules at school and at home but they find their own cultural structure with their friends.
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The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
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Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
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As far as the recreation department, he's been suspended for a year. It's in our recreation department rules that (there's) no physical contact on umpires or even verbal.
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It has been four years of tremendous activity. Some of the rules he pushed through were some of the most far-reaching in the country. That's what will be his legacy.
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(If) Turkey continues not to implement (EU rules and regulations) ... its path towards the European Union will end.
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I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'
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as brutal an enemy as we have ever faced, unconstrained by any notion of common humanity and by the rules of warfare.