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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

~George Will

Topics: Education Emancipation His Individual Passions Politics Purpose Religion Share Should Steady Through

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

~George Will

Topics: About Audience He His Less Politician Reveal Subject Than Thinks Words

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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

~George Will

Topics: Adulation Affairs American Fine He His History Journalists Juliet Look Love Matter Media Moment Over President Programs Reality Romeo Romeo And Juliet Three Time Will Work World

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Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

~George Will

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Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.

~George Will

Topics: Ability American Attribute Control Disappointment Events Explain Generally Helps Ignorance Perpetual Political Politicians Presidents Voters Whom

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The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

~George Will

Topics: Act Age Becomes Benefits Bidding Collect Congress Enriching Entitled Entitlement Established Extending Men Menu Politics Quickly Security Social Social Security State War Welfare Welfare State Women

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Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

~George Will

Topics: Addictive Because Believe Between Choices Choose Class Democrats Entitlement Facing Future Increasing Instantly Known Latter Middle-Class Taxes Will

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Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.

~George Will

Topics: Action Audience Brain Cause Delight Disease Entertainment Expected Football Growing Knows May Players Portion Which

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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

~George Will

Topics: Advertising Becomes Idiom Language Nation Noise Normal Printed

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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

~George Will

Topics: Arriving Future Way

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: May 4th, 1941

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