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Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.


Jane Elliot

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SETH GODIN The status quo is simply unacceptable.
BRAD HENRY The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
LAURENCE J. PETER Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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EMMANUEL MACRON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo.
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ARIEL SHARON The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
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DR ANUPAM VERMA I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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WAYNE CLARKSON The status quo is stable, but it won't be stable forever,
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ERIC WEINER Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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DEYTH BANGER Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your sta...
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MICHAEL HARRIS If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
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BOBBY W. MILLER Everything's status quo. We're just going to sit tight on that and see what happens.
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ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to...
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ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot...
AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh...
ELLIOT WASHINGTON Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
JIM ELLIOT This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
ELISABETH ELLIOT The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word fr...
JIM ELLIOT You're moving muscles and improving circulation in areas you can't when you're in a wheelchair on la...
JIM ELLIOT "The most meanest and depraved of men come out on top, and women flock to these men.Their evil acts ...
ELLIOT RODGER Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age
ELLIOT PAUL It's not just one crop in one region. It's multiple crops in most of the state that have been affect...
DAVE ELLIOT It was like hitting a brick wall. We're still unsure of what to do.
ELLIOT SECRIST I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to cru...
JIM ELLIOT We are eager to use the occultation technique to probe for atmospheres around large Kuiper belt obje...
JIM ELLIOT The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation
WALTER ELLIOT Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call i...
JIM ELLIOT Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in ...
ELLIOT CARTER Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all small stuff.
ROBERT ELLIOT Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT