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«People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo»
«This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life»
«Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.»
«The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.»
«Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.»
«Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
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disruptive, eternally, giving birth, handmaiden, handmaidens, status
«The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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axe, dedication, foe, forbearance, irrespective, lays, offers, of age, self help, self taught, shade, status, The Dog, tolerance, tree trunk, trunk, trunks
«The status quo sucks.»
«Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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Pride,
Shame
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«Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in.''»
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