Obsolete Quotes - Page 2

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

  Henry Tillman

  Travel, Fun, Memorable

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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