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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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
revenge passion thinking
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
theater artifice
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
beauty honored
All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.
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Columbus gave the world another world.
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
anxiety shapes
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.
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To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
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It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.
disillusionment
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.