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Quote by George Will
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it i

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be? – George Will

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. – George Will

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Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. – George Will

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Experience
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible lifestyles turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. – George Will

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A mans ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. – Albert Einstein

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. – Oscar Wilde

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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness–a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbors wife. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. – Sir John Harvey

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen. – George S. Arundale

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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. – Gertrude Stein

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Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. – Frank Gillette Burgess

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The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. – Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999

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