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obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.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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• Adults are obsolete children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

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

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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across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.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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• 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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• When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

  Peter Drucker

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

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

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Cutting, Differences, Edges

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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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• 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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• Anything on paper is obsolete!

  Craig Reucassel

  Paper

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

  John Templeton

  Believe, Optimistic, Becoming

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• Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.

  Rich Sommer

  Phones, Topics, Easier

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• Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.

  Gene Cernan

  Home, Moon, Technology

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• If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Divorce, Justice

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• Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Tom Lehrer

  Political, Henry Kissinger, Satire

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

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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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• I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas, Ineffable, Used

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• Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Work Out, Rebellion

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

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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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• Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

  Ted Turner

  Crazy, Communication, Cost

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• The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Defense

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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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• 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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