"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
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"I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian."
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"Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not."
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"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction."
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"We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects."
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"Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction."
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"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."
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"As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly."
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"The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us."
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"He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own."
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"If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs."
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"Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary."
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"A nation without means of reform is without means of survival."
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"The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them."
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"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable."
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"We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need."
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."
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"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."
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"A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve."
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"When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do."
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