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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

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George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
Columnist
Journalist
Champaign
Illinois
George F. Will
George Frederick Will
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