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Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

~George Will

Topics: Admiration Children Clay Modern Mother Mother Nature Nature Nurture Parenting Parents Produces Soft Want Will

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Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

~George Will

Topics: Bang Boy Butt Duck Give Guns He Like Make Neck Parents Pistol Rubber Say Seize Shout Some Toy Will

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Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

~George Will

Topics: American Apple Apple Pie Cheese Frozen Pessimism Pie Processed Slice

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Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

~George Will

Topics: Another Big Big Government Brain Could Creature Dinosaur Fact Government Indeed Injury Like Minute Nearly Nervous Nervous System Primitive System Tail Take

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Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.

~George Will

Topics: Accelerate Administration Believing Better Create Crisis Deliberately Fiscal Great Liberalism Obama Obama Administration Recession Thing Understands Useful Which Worse

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If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

~George Will

Topics: Amendment Anticipated Children Citizenship Had Huge Illegal Illegal Immigration Imagined Immigration Laws Presume Provide Reasonable Restricting Reward Surely Those Wanted Waves Who Would Wrote

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World War II was the last government program that really worked.

~George Will

Topics: Government Government Program Last Program Really War Worked World World War World War Ii

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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

~George Will

Topics: Decide Issues Voters Who Will

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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

~George Will

Topics: Accomplishes Because Constitute Elite Fascinate Good Mediocrity Paradox Politicians Public Public Good

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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

~George Will

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: May 4th, 1941

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