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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. -- Marshall McLuhan
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. -- Henry David Thoreau
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. -- Lord Byron
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. -- Peace Pilgrim
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. -- Ernest Hemingway
Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other. -- Katharine Graham
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet. -- John Ridley
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. -- Guy Finley
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence? -- Marie Kondo
I outlived the bastards. -- Herbert Hoover
I've outlived all my diet doctors. -- Merv Griffin
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens. -- Bill Hicks
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. -- George Eliot
Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds. -- Suetonius
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure. -- Peter Drucker
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts. -- Benjamin Rush
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long. -- Hannah More
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion. -- Barry Humphries
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not. -- Jane Austen
Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself. -- James Madison
This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go--- -- Emily Dickinson
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it. -- Anthony Marra
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. -- Alexander Fraser Tytler
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. -- William O. Douglas
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied. -- Eudora Welty
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- James Thurber
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. -- Roger Zelazny
There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies. -- Barnabas
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty -- Phyllis Bottome
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries. -- Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart. -- Terence McKenna
Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . . -- Clifford D. Simak
I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown"¦let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered. -- Ned Kelly
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats. -- Anne Sexton

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