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...they say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn't they tell you? Monsters can't be reformed...


John Geddes


#husband #monters #reformed #change

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.


Donald L. Carcieri


#innovation #island #public #public service #recipe

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.


Laura Miller


#city #city hall #ethics #focus #hall

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.


Daisaku Ikeda


#destiny #happiness #humanism #inspirational #karma

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.


John Piper


#theology #life

The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to the prohibitionist regime. The fact that some of the most successful people of our time, be it in business, finances, politics, entertainment or the arts, are current or former substance users is a fundamental refutation of its premises and a stinging rebuttal of its rationale. A criminal law that is broken at least once by 50% of the adult population and that is broken on a regular basis by 20% of the same adult population is a broken law, a fatally flawed law. How can a democratic government justify a law that is consistently broken by a substantial minority of the population? What we are witnessing here is a massive case of civil disobedience not seen since alcohol prohibition in the 1930 in the US. On what basis can a democratic system justify the stigmatization and discrimination of a strong minority of as much as 20% of its population?


Jeffrey Dhywood


#bill-clinton #drug-policy-reform #g-w-bush #prohibitionism #war-on-drugs

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.


Daisaku Ikeda


#buddhism #destiny #humanism #inspirational #karma

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.


Matthew Scully


#morality #principles #reform #change

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

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.


Martin Luther King Jr.


#civil-rights-movement #equal-rights #martin-luther-king-jr #reform #violence