We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

George F. Will in Statecraft as Soulcraft
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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

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The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet -- a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's curriculum.

George F. Will in Newsweek (4 July 2005)
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