George Will Quotes
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Today's agreement between Putnam and the SEC provides some preliminary measures to address certain of the issues raised in the actions filed against Putnam. However, these measures represent only a starting point for needed industry reforms in fund governance and oversight and do not address crucial issues involving restitution to fund holders, fines and penalties.
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Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
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The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
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I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper.
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself...
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When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury.
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It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
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It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.
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Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.
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After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
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I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.
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What was said before is not important.
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The difference between the Haves and Have-nots? The will to sacrifice and to do what others won't.... Very simple.
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A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.
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Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.
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There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.
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It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.
