George Will Quotes
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
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I hate political correctness.
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I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
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I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.
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The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.
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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.
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Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
