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Tag Name "Status" (661)

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Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.
Mahnaz Afkhami
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It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.
Gillian Anderson
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The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.
Claude C. Hopkins
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
Shane Claiborne
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
Alain de Botton
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
Gerry Adams
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When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.
Michael Demon Calce
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My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past. Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?
Bindi Irwin
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For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status.
Michelle Alexander
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One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status.
James W. Pennebaker
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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
Jeffrey Kluger
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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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Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.
Sandra Bartky
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Status symbols are poor excuses for values.
Mary Browne
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Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game. They have won five European Cups and their status is up there with AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Brendan
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We can make a huge impact. We can be that difference maker just because of our status and because of what we do. I would advise all professional athletes to get involved and to try to help make a difference. If we don't, who else will?
Davone Bess
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Celestial criteria measures service, not status.
Neal A. Maxwell
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
Andrea Dworkin
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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 J. Clinton
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We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
Bell Hooks
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A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.
John C. Maxwell
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We can walk together to change the status quo.
Ken Wyatt
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In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.
John Lanchester
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