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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We were committed to continuing a high level of investment in marketing this quarter to the extent that we could maintain earnings per share and generate positive cash flow, and that is precisely what we did,
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Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
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There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
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Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.
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Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.
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The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
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The fact credit rating agencies haven't changed their ratings is no surprise. I wouldn't have expected them to right away and it will take some time, but it now is more logical that credit ratings should go up rather than down.
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The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
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The fact that he was involved in a collision and his first thought was to get out and see if the other parties were OK was so typically Don. It was exactly what you would have imagined he would do.
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