This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.


George F. Burns

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One sister for sale,
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All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house M...
GEORGE F. WILL
Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique ste...
GEORGE F. WILL
Heroism ... is endurance for one moment more.
GEORGE F. KENNAN
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the l...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on ...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orienta...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
I shall always remember you-slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion-pumping hot wat...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
GEORGE F. WILL
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
GEORGE F. WILL
Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost eve...
GEORGE F. WILL
Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.
GEORGE F. WILL
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say foot...
GEORGE F. WILL
Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
GEORGE F. WILL
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes me...
GEORGE F. WILL
American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses...
GEORGE F. WILL
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism
GEORGE F. WILL
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
GEORGE F. WILL
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE F. WILL
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The gove...
GEORGE F. WILL
The general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overt...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorshi...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Ru...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering ...
GEORGE F. WILL
If you accept a democratic system, this means that you are prepared to put up with those of its work...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industri...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.
GEORGE F. WILL
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE F. WILL
Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.
GEORGE F. WILL
Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an...
GEORGE F. WILL
Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE F. WILL
One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE
Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self...
URSULA BURNS
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, wri...
URSULA BURNS
Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt our...
URSULA BURNS
Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a proc...
URSULA BURNS
Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, a...
URSULA BURNS