Obsolete Quotes

• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Self, Goal

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• The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reverse

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.635, Vintage

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• Adults are obsolete children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Technology, Government

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• Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Hideous

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• If it works, it's obsolete.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hard Work, Creativity, Ideas

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

  Peter Drucker

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

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• In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.

  James Mattis

  Military, Home, Enemy

  James Mattis' speech at the US Joint Forces Command Conference, May 2010.

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  Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Rights, Dignity

  "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Twilight Zone" ("The Obsolete Man", 1961), www.imdb.com. 1959–1964.

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• What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Cutting, Differences, Edges

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• Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Childhood, Adults

  "Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel". Book by Thomas Fensch, p. 96, 1997.

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• If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

  Jeff Bezos

  Forever, Needs, Aging

  "Jeff Bezos: A Down-to-Earth CEO Reaching for the Stars" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Anything on paper is obsolete!

  Craig Reucassel

  Paper

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• I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Optimistic, Becoming

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• The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Moving, Past, Thinking

  Sri Aurobindo (2000). “Essays on the Gita”, p.562, SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept

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• Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Traps

  "Why French Women Have More Sex Than Their American Sisters" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Railroads, Today, Train Tracks

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Quoted in New Yorker, 8 Jan. 1966

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• I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

  Kent McCord

  Needs, Way, Grades

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• Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.

  Paul Goldberger

  Thinking, Dubai, Cities

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Imperfection, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

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• Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Powerful, Men, Expression

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1913). “Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)”

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• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Years, Skills

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• The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Library, Buckets

  Washington Irving (2009). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”, p.109, Modern Library

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