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Quotes About Antiquated

The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong.
~ Robert Redford
More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
~ Campbell Brown
I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
~ Walter Rauschenbusch
The language, of course, is quaint and antiquated, so that the beauty of many of its golden phrases will scarcely be perceived at the present day, but it is impossible not to be charmed with the genuine sentiment, the delightful artlessness and urbanity, which prevail throughout it. The descriptions of Nature too, with which it is embellished, are given with a truth, a discrimination, and a freshness, worthy of the most cultivated periods of the art.
~ Washington Irving
That's the point, it's out of date now
~ Douglas Adams
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
~ Tom Allen
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
~ Walter Rauschenbusch
There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.
~ William Ralph Inge
Perseverance, dear my lord,Keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hangQuite out of fashion, like a rusty mailIn monumental mockery.
~ William Shakespeare
Too often she had seen the first indignation of disappointed parents at the marriage of the their children harden into a matter of pride, a matter of doggedness and principle, and finally become ridiculous. If the marriages turned out happy, how absurd to persist in an antiquated disapproval; if they turned out wretched, then how urgent the special need for love.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
For me, I spent months on job boards in 2010 and was frustrated by the experience. It's antiquated and clunky, and there was nothing about a particular job posting that helped me favor one company over another. You literally get a list of 5,000 jobs that look the same.
~ Kathryn Minshew
Anyhow, it strikes me as a little archaic, like 'helpmate
~ Richard North Patterson
Our second objection to the professions under the grand bargain is that, by and large, the arrangement presupposes a model of professional work, especially advisory work, that rests on increasingly antiquated techniques for creating and sharing knowledge.
~ Richard Susskind
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.
~ Robert T. Bakker
So where does this come from, this dirty double standard? Pathologizing women's bodies and sexuality is certainly nothing new; from "hysteria"* to fears about menstruation, women have been considered the "dirtier" sex for a long time *The word "hysteria" actually comes from the antiquated idea that women's emotional problems were derived from the uterus
~ Jessica Valenti
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
~ Evelyn Waugh
My alphabet book at Duddingston Primary, Edinburgh, began traditionally with 'a is for apple,' but when it came to 'g,' it was 'g is for gas globe.' This was in the late Fifties; there hadn't been gas globes for decades. The textbook must have been 30 or 40 years old!
~ Gavin Esler
The old debate between mind and matter is fast becoming as antiquated as a debate about the relative merits of various sorts of fountain pens. "Matter" is going out of style. The electron is turning out to be the Cartesian "pineal gland" which mediates in the obsolete opposition of mind and matter as the lines between these two antagonists in the ancient dualism are blurred by the electronic revolution.
~ John D. Caputo
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
~ Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code