The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common language. We all have, to some extent, a complex, sometimes adversarial, relationship with our physical selves. And I more than most people know that it is correct to say, ' I have a body.' There is my body, and then there is ME, trying to make it behave. George F. Will
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More Quotes By George F. Will
  1. The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
  2. Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.
  3. Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
  4. There may be arrogance — and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.
  5. People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
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