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• An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

  Ed Parker

  Logic, Tradition

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• No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Organization, Competition, Protection

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• Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

  Horace Mann

  School, Character, Night

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.15

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• Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, School, Years

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• There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Believe

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• Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Technology, Art Is

  Jeff Koons (2002). “Jeff Koons: Pictures, 1980-2002”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

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• Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Love Is, Toes, Ranking

  Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Harrowing the Dragon”, p.90, Penguin

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• 3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.

  Carl Mazzocone

  Art, Six Months, Computer

  Source: collider.com

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• Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

  Max Gallo

  France, States, Claims

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In education, parody is obsolete.

  Alfie Kohn

  Parody

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• Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society. Thousands are not ashamed to say that they regard the Bible as an old obsolete Jewish book, which has no special claim on our faith and obedience, and that it contains many inaccuracies and defects. In a day like this, the true Christian should be able to set his foot down firmly, and to render a reason of his confidence in God's Word. He should be able by sound arguments to show good cause why he thinks the Bible is from heaven, and not of men.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Book, Men

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• I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

  Nikola Tesla

  Discovery, Years, Giving

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• Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.

  Philip Kotler

  Hard Work, Lines, Should

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• All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

  Steve Jobs

  Done, Fifty

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• Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

  Wilfred Bion

  Darkness, Patient, Evolution

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• The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

  Vance Havner

  Word Of God, Absolutes

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.60, Solid Christian Books

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• I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Military, War, Men

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.115, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.

  Alvin Toffler

  Mistake, Educational, Goal

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• The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your seat, and you're obsolete unless you recreate and somehow find grace somewhere else. Another profession may not be like that.

  Joan Chen

  Doors, Somewhere Else, People

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

  Johnny Depp

  Moving, Technology, Player

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

  Peter Drucker

  Waiting, Management, Competitors

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.172, Routledge

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• The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.

  Robert Conquest

  Country, Block, Ideas

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• Obsolete weapons do not deter.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Weapons

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

  Bill Gates

  School, Mean, America

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• Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.

  Douglas Crockford

  Comment

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.6, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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