#reform

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#destiny #happiness #humanism #inspirational #karma

Doch was [Olof] Palme in seinem Modernisierungseifer nicht verstehen konnte oder wollte, war, dass die akademischen Spinnweben auch für eine demokratisierte Hochschule von einigem Wert waren. Die Universitäten repräsentierten eine zivile Gesellschaft sowohl außerhalb des Staates als auch der Marktwirtschaft; sie waren eine andere Sphäre, die von der Jagd nach höherer Produktivität unberührt war, an der Wirtschaft und Sozialdemokratie natürlich teilnahmen. Den Universitäten und den Akademikern gegen ihren Willen Reformen aufzuzwingen untergrub ihr Selbstvertrauen und schadete auf lange Sicht der akademischen Freiheit. ↗

— Henrik Berggren

#reform #freedom

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#men #reform #women #humor

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever ↗

— Westminster Shorter Catechism

#history-of-philosophy #meaning-of-life #motto #motto-in-life #reformed

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness. ↗

— Max Baucus

#competitiveness #economy #essential #health #health reform

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. ↗

— Max Baucus

#reform #tax #tax reform

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#bipartisan #debate #find #going #i

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#how #i #i wish #plan #proposal

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#care #comprehensive #considered #endanger #liability