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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.”

Quote by George Will

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George Will (born May 4, 1941) is a prominent American conservative political commentator, columnist, and author. He is best known for his syndicated column in The Washington Post, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977. Will is also a regular contributor to Fox News and has written numerous books on politics, culture, and baseball. His work emphasizes traditional values, limited government, and free markets, making him a key figure in modern American conservatism. more

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“Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.”

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“Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.”

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“Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.”

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