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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.

From George Will

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

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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.

From George Will

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.

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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!'

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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

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Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

From George Will

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

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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

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