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#1. I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Kent McCord

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#2. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Amory Lovins

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#3. 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

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#4. They have destroyed your weapons," he had told the generals, in effect. "But these weapons would in any case have become obsolete before the next war. That war will be fought with brand-new ones, and the army which is least hampered with obsolete material will have a great advantage.

Winston S. Churchill

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#5. As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob ... if you can see it, it's obsolete."

Bob Hope

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#6. 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

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#7. The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

Alvin Toffler

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#8. We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.

Theodore Dreiser

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#9. Adults are only obsolete children.

Dr. Seuss

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#10. 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

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#11. Knowledge grows, and simultaneously it becomes obsolete as reality changes. Understanding involves both learning new knowledge and discarding obsolete and misleading knowledge. The discarding activity--unlearning--is as important a part of understanding as is adding new knowledge.

Bo Hedberg

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#12. The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#13. Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Robert Kiyosaki

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#14. The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

John Sununu

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#15. I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Brian Aldiss

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#16. Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. ... We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.

Bryan Fischer

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#17. The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do ... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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#18. Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

Nataly Kelly

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#19. I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

Steve Jobs

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#20. 3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.

Carl Mazzocone

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

Masahisa Goi

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#22. 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

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#23. The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.

Jim Stengel

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#24. Young and virgin
They taught us that men were like kites
Composed of paper and rope
They were weightless.
And we were to be their rocks
Heavy and obsolete.

Dua Yacoubi

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#25. 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

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#26. Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.

Sukant Ratnakar

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#27. Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

Patricia Schroeder

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#28. By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

Jane Leavy

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#29. Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

Jay Abraham

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#30. Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

Dan Millman

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#31. Century also had shelves of obsolete printed books.

Alfred Bester

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#32. My task as a therapist (not unlike that of a parent) is to make myself obsolete - to help a patient become his or her own mother and father

Irvin D. Yalom

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#33. Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.

Robert Reich

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#34. To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.

Adora Svitak

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#35. It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

Marvin Minsky

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#36. But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears.

Sydney J. Harris

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#37. Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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#38. Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

Raheel Farooq

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

Thomas A. Edison

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#40. I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

Paul Krugman

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

Robert Kiyosaki

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#42. if it works it's obsolete

Marshall McLuhan

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#43. I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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#44. Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

Sumantra Ghoshal

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#45. So next time you hear a raving demagogue counseling hatred for other, slightly different groups of humans, for a moment at least see if you can understand his problem: He is heeding an ancient call that - however dangerous, obsolete, and maladaptive it may be today - once benefitted our species.

Carl Sagan

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#46. Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

Robert A. Dahl

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#47. White magic or black, it doesn't make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions

David Porush

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#48. I helped you help me, you helped me to help you, that's the way it must be or the very idea of help would be obsolete. I always thought that being helped was a loss of control, but you must allow someone to help you, you must want someone to help you, and only then can the act begin.

Cecelia Ahern

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#49. I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

Arnold Palmer

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

Henry Tillman

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#51. Speaking of bones recalls an ugly custom of theirs, now obsolete - that of making fish-hooks and gimlets out of those of their enemies. This beats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers. But

Herman Melville

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#52. The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employees, wherever they work from, share a united identity and vision?

Noreena Hertz

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#53. -You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Joseph Heller

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#54. An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

Adam Smith

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

Gylve Nagell

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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#57. People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare.

Dalai Lama

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#58. 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

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#59. You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again.

Jeff Buckley

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#60. In education, parody is obsolete.

Alfie Kohn

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

Charles Horner

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#62. I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.

Gary Jennings

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#63. For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

Paul Graham

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#64. Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

Kool Moe Dee

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#65. Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

Mark Mothersbaugh

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#66. most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.

Peter Thiel

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#67. The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

Bill Gates

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#68. The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

Peter Drucker

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#69. Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

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#70. Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

Frank Herbert

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#71. My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

Karl Kraus

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#72. I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

Wayne Huizenga

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#73. Non of our possessions would be obsolete, unless have no respect for them.

Saaif Alam

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#74. Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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#75. 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

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#76. Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road ... old buildings, old people on a front porch ... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff.

Robert M. Pirsig

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#77. 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

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#78. They all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#79. an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

Olivia Manning

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#80. We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

Naveen Jain

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#81. It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

Sugata Mitra

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#82. Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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#84. Was there really something to the obsolete idea of a national character? Some countries just changed tyrants, without changing anything else.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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#85. I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#86. For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

Richard Matheson

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#87. British currency was configured in pounds, shillings, and pence. One pound equaled twenty shillings, written as 20 s., which in turn equaled 240 pence, or 240 d. A new pound is equal to 100 pennies, with one penny equal to 2.4 of the obsolete pence.)

Erik Larson

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

Tammy Bruce

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#89. There is no need to hold on to what's obsolete: One never loses what one tosses away deliberately.

Dinah Sanders

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#90. [A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created ... At a stroke then, the Veyron has rendered everything I've ever said about any other car obsolete. It's rewritten the rule book, moved the goalposts and in the process, given Mother Nature a bloody nose.

Jeremy Clarkson

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#91. 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

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#92. I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

Joe Haldeman

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#93. I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

Neil Patrick Harris

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#94. 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

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#95. Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Theodor Adorno

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#96. 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

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

Chuck Schumer

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#98. 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

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#99. It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

Jerry Zucker

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#100. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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