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obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.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across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.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 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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• Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Hideous

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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  Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.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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• 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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• I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Optimistic, Becoming

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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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• Anything on paper is obsolete!

  Craig Reucassel

  Paper

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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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• 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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• 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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• Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

  Theodor Adorno

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.217, Verso

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• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  Tammy Bruce

  Men, Ideas, Goal

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.80, Crown Forum

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• The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under 'M' for mankind... in the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Men, Rights

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• What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Real, Teaching

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1933, e-artnow

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• The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

  Chuck Horner

  Military, Nuclear Missiles, Want

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• New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

  Tom Holt

  Technology, Incentives, Ugly

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