#reverse

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#actions #happiness #intended #pain #pleasure

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise. ↗

— Thomas More

#advises #ask #reverse #she #sure

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

#could #council #difficult #during #elected

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#areas #bottleneck #decision #delegate #down

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#boredom #both #depend #fascination #inside

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenging #challenging-authority #comedian #comedic #comedy

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . ↗

— Charles Dickens

#diseased #mind #perverse #perverted #reverse

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#aspect #beautiful #being #consideration #family