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Danh ngôn của George Will (Sứ mệnh: 5)

World War II was the last government program that really worked.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.