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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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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Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon.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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When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

Peter L. Berger

Jobs, Steel, Culture

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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Funny, Term, Swearing

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.16

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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Walter Jon Williams

Doors, Editors, Want

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If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

Janet Napolitano

School, Years, Today

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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Mason Cooley

Sage, Literature, Enlightened

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If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Schumer

Soldier, Conventions, Geneva

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We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Elizabeth Kim

Falling In Love, Tree, Ashes

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I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

Brian Ferneyhough

Sometimes, Scope, Force

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I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

Jay Chiat

Long, Advertising, Economy

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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

Country, Peace, Mean

Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

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My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Robert Kiyosaki

Ideas, People, I've Learned

Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Benjamin Disraeli

Change, Should Have, Progress

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3719, Delphi Classics

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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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I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

Katherine Paterson

Believe, Book, Technology

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They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Believe, Angel, Stuff

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The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Henry Tillman

Travel, Fun, Memorable

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Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Jennifer Egan

Technology, Years, Two

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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

R. Buckminster Fuller

War, Technology, Selfishness

"Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion, Reform

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Children, Believe, Book

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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Struggle, Order, Trying

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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Dave Chappelle

Funny, Humor, Greatness

"Inside the Actor's Studio", February 12, 2006.

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