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Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

~George Will

Topics: Advice Approximately Been Children Lighten Long Parents People Perhaps Raising Raising Children Up

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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

~George Will

Topics: Improvement Often Perfection Pursuit

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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

~George Will

Topics: Accept American Because Constitute Constitution Democracy Judicial Judicial Review Know Law Majority Makes Must Nation No Law Popular Popularity Possibly Preferences Review Some Supervision Truly Trump Unconstitutional

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Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.

~George Will

Topics: Barack Barack Obama Been Care Famous Health Health Care Him His History Hopes However Judge Mark May Missed Obama Opportunity President Transformative Victory Will

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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

~George Will

Topics: About Being Constantly Either Nice Part Pessimist Pleasantly Proven Right Surprised You

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

~George Will

Topics: Arizona Baseball Canyon Created Equal Game Games Grand Grand Canyon Hole Holes Only Said True

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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

~George Will

Topics: Aging America Blue Calamities Causes Come Crash Crisis Demographics Different Driven Entitlement Harbor Known Lightning Like Market Pearl Pearl Harbor Population Scope Some Stock Stock Market Structure Summer Timing

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Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

~George Will

Topics: About Been Bent Comedy Distraction Driving Five Human Idea Inclined Minutes Only Parents Recently Relative Seriously Taking Themselves Too Tree Twig

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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

~George Will

Topics: Business Childhood Frequently Inside Solemn Those

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Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

~George Will

Topics: Although Diminishes Earner Earning Freedom Invested Made Money Necessary Some Tangible Taxation Time

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: May 4th, 1941

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