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The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.George F. Will
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Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts — children — into social artifacts called citizens. It is wearying work and it is a wonder teachers can summon the stamina for it.George F. Will
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Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.George F. Will
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Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.George F. Will
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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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Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.George F. Will
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Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.George F. Will
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Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.George F. Will
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Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt — but he won't like God.George F. Will
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National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.George F. Will
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In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.George F. Will