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• It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.

  Ian Bremmer

  Moving, Pace, Durability

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it "collaborative filtering" or something technical, but the impulse is the same - gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change skeptics: render them totally obsolete.

  DJ Spooky

  Clouds, Records, Mixtapes

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• A slow band can be great. A slow 100-metres runner is just obsolete.

  Gylve Nagell

  Band, Runners

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Past, Two, Focus

  "Alycia Debnam-Carey on ‘The 100′ Season 3 and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2016.

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• Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...

  Robert Kennedy

  Adventure, Yield, Imagination

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Letting Go, Ideas, Humans

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2017

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• The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

  Eric Topol

  Heart, Listening, Stethoscope

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. 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

  Art, Sex, Commitment

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• The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Skills, Age

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.280, Routledge

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• I've made a poster at home. You know the iconic image of Che Guevara, the black and red graphic of his face? I think it's the perfect graphic, the best graphic ever made. I cut a Concorde out and put it over his head so it's Che looking up and the Concorde going by. Both are dead, maybe obsolete.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Home, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Terminology

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• Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Change, Real, Usa

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Five Thousand Year Leap”, Verity Publishing

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• What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.

  Terence McKenna

  Faith, Believe, Mean

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• The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

  Andy Rooney

  Computer, Adaptability, Industry

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• Our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken

  Masahisa Goi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Taken

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• As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Faith, Believe, Gambling

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS

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• Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

  Gary Hamel

  Names, Bullets, Firsts

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• Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self, Justice, Feminist

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• In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Years

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, School, Ties

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• The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

  Barack Obama

  Information, Flow, Notion

  Barack Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

  Ronald Reagan

  Historical, Becoming, World

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects.

  Steve McIntyre

  Past, Errors, Data

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• Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Men, Two

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart, 1963.

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• A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Whales, People, Greed

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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