Obsolete Quotes
189 quotes by 153 authors
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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
— Theodor Adorno
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War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly…
— Cindy Sheehan
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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…
— Theodore Dreiser
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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…
— Peter L. Berger
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful…
— Al Gore
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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…
— Marvin Minsky
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During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.…
— Max Born
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Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to…
— Woody Allen
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
— Dave Chappelle
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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…
— Patricia Schroeder
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I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
— John Templeton
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The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
— Henry Tillman
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce…
— Brooks Stevens
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The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new…
— Barack Obama
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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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In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a…
— Strobe Talbott
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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,…
— Mark Twain
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The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more…
— Will Eisner
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Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.
— Rosalind Russell
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