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There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.
Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.
I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.
Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.
There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.
We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.
It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.
I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.
Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.
Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.
The status quo is not working, and I believe that Donald Trump is going to be a phenomenal president.
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.
Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?
I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.
Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.
The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.
We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.
I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo a little bit more.
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.