| Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. |
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- George Will |
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| They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. |
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- George Will |
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| Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. |
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- George Will |
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| Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. |
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- George Will |
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| The future has a way of arriving unannounced. |
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- George Will |
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| If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. |
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- George Will |
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| Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. |
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- George Will |
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| Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. |
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- George Will |
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| The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. |
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- George Will |
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| As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. |
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- George Will |
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