DEDICATED
to that amazing device, the Required Reading List,
better even than artificial respiration
for keeping dead authors alive.Richard Armour (1906–1989) American poet and author
Book (1960), The Classics Reclassified, Dedication
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Quotations about:
obsolescence
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If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 5 (1963)
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More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.
Kenichi Ohmae (b. 1943) Japanese management consultant, writer
The Mind of the Strategist (1982)
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So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
[Sobald eine Mode allgemein geworden ist, hat sie sich überlebt.]
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 280 (1880) [tr. Wister (1883)]
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(Source (German)). Other translation:As soon as fashion has caught on, it has outlived itself.
[tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)
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