George Will Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.
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Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.
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On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.
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It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
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Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.
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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.
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The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
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Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
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To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
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I've torn a ligament in the ankle and have been told I could miss up to two games, but hopefully it might only be one.
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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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There were a lot more. Now you're left with the four holdouts.
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He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.
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One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.
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I dreamt I was forced to eat 25lb of marshmallows. When I woke up, my pillow was missing.
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If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.
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The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.
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But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.
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Even the continents drift.
