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Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about A

Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George Will

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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain. – George Will

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Leadership
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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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Food
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Our age will be known as the age of committees. – Ernest Benn

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Committees

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?… Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. – Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Committees

A “Normal” person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, “Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.” – Alan Sherman

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Committees

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. – H.L. Mencken

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Committees

Random Quotes

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that its the governments role to provide everything. – Rick Warren

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Equality

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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God

Im glad movies arent going to please everybody, they cant. But what they have to be is recognisable. I dont equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. – Kevin Costner

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movies

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you dont do it, and it wont happen. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Hope