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«Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
Civil rights,
Constitution
| Keywords:
amendment, protects, repeal, repealed, repealing, Second Amendment
«American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the Democratic party did basically from 1972 through the Iran hostage crisis, is in trouble.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
American flag, American politics, Democratic Party, hostage, in trouble, Iran, The Party
«Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
Football,
Sports
| Keywords:
committee, committee meeting, elements, incorporate, incorporated, incorporates, incorporating, meetings, punctuate, punctuated
«Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
War
| Keywords:
brace, braced, braces, brace up, bracing, Continent, defying, Empire, modern world, remarkably, reminder, reminders, revolutionary, turned on
«Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
broadcaster, Broadcasters, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, cub, cubs, demean, demeaning, demeans, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, President Reagan, radio, Reagan, Reagans, Ronald, Ronald Reagan
«The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
achievements, actualities, admirable, American history, breaking off, break off, conspicuous, continuous, exertions, gap, grandly, increased, Marks, peoples, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, singularly, spur, The Admirable, The Gap
«Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
circumscribed, circumscribes, derives, moral excellence, pressure, recording, records, seriousness, severe, strenuous| Occasions:
Olympic
«Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity.»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
chemistry, concede, conceded, concedes, conceding, cub, fans, Franciscan, scholars, steadfastness, The Amazing, The Team
«The homosexual subculture based on brief, barren assignations is, in part, a dark mirror of the sex-obsessed majority culture.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
assignation, assignations, barren, brief, homosexual, obsess, obsessed, Obsessing, subculture
«Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
apple pie, cheese, frozen, PIE, processed, processed cheese, slice
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