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"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." »Lao Tzu
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"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." »Laurence J. Peter
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"A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal." »Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
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"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." »Robert Byrne
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"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo." »Sir John Collins Squire, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process." »Sir William Temple
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"Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks." »Carol Botwin
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"That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life." »Paul Tournier
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"That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life." »Paul Tournier
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles." »Paul Fussell
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"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something." »Jean Rostand
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"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking." »Terence
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"To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful." »Sallust
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"I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America." »William Jefferson Clinton
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"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story." »Walter Cronkite
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"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it." »Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." »Andre Gide
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"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth." »Cicero
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it." »Andr Gide
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"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom
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"We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." »Paul Weyrich
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"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone." »Orison Swett Marden
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"It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life." »Paul Tournier
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius
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"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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