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“The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Reform
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Society
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Work
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Culture
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“I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system.”
Jimmy Carter
Politics
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Reform
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America
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Awareness
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Future
3.
“Long before the year 2000, the entire antiquated structure of degrees, majors, and credits will be a shambles.”
Alvin Toffler
Education
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Future
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Change
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Structure
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Reform
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“The journey to limit crony capitalism: It's a journey, it's not a destination. Slowly but surely, in India, crony capitalism has died and governance is what brings about real growth.”
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Economy
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Governance
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Capitalism
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Reform
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Business Ethics
5.
“One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.”
Thomas Merton
Contemplation
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Spirituality
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Patience
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Reform
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Humility
6.
“I propose that a teacher’s pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher’s employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Education
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Merit
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Teachers
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Performance
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Reform
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“Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
Calendar
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History
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Reform
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Time
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Change
8.
“We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats.”
Herbert Hoover
Wisdom
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Change
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Strategy
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Reform
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Society
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“Otherwise we shall repel and alienate the very people whose reform we desire; we shall make them, moreover, reluctant to imitate us in anything for fear they may have to imitate us in everything.”
Seneca
Influence
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Change
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Acceptance
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Leadership
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Reform
10.
“I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.”
George Soros
Economics
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Reform
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Power
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Influence
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Self-Perception
11.
“The world order needs a major overhaul.”
George Soros
World Order
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Reform
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Global Affairs
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Change
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Politics
12.
“Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Laws
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Institutions
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Governance
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Justice
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Reform
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“It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Law
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Change
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Society
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Legal System
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Reform
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“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
Thomas Carlyle
Change
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Reform
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Wisdom
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Self-Improvement
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Society
15.
“All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.”
Thomas Carlyle
Reform
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Moral
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Change
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Society
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Failure
16.
“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
Thomas Carlyle
Reform
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Suffering
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Hard Work
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Nation
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Change
17.
“Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.”
Karl Marx
Reform
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Power
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Social Change
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Strength
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Activism
18.
“It’s important to remember, when we’re out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn’t get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.”
Pema Chodron
Peace
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Reform
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Positive Change
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Letting Go
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Activism
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“He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.”
Baruch Spinoza
Laws
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Regulation
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Vices
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Reform
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Society
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“For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.”
Ronald Reagan
Victims
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Crime
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Forgotten
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Criminal Justice
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Reform
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“Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
Ronald Reagan
Welfare
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Purpose
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Existence
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Reform
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Society
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“We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.”
Ronald Reagan
Welfare
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Success
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Measure
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Poverty
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Reform
23.
“The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called “society” may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Society
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Reform
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Utopia
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Virtue
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Change
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“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”
Ramana Maharshi
Reform
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World
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Self
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Pain
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Simplicity
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“A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.”
George Washington
Government
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Weak Leadership
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Political Instability
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National Challenges
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Reform
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“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.”
Leo Tolstoy
Progress
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Truth
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Prejudice
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Knowledge
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Reform
27.
“Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.”
Leo Tolstoy
Nonviolence
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Reform
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Wisdom
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Peaceful Change
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Human Nature
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“Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard—you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!”
Calvin Coolidge
Education
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Change
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Resistance
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Tradition
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Reform
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“The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.”
Calvin Coolidge
Evil
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Good
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Society
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Reform
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Positivity
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“Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.”
Nepolian Bonaparte
Poverty
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Reform
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Work
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Justice
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Social Change
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