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• Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Titles, Belief, Versions

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• I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Technology, Government

  "Q&A: Michael Bloomberg on Free Wi-Fi, Crime and Higher Office". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.wired.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

  John Shadegg

  Competition, Tape, Cost

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• It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Sex, Past

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• At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

  Prince

  Mtv, Hips, One Time

  "Inside Prince's bizarre life at Paisley Park: This is what happened when we visited the music icon". Interview with Peter Willis, www.mirror.co.uk. July 2010.

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• In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders

  Mark Cuban

  Technology, Order, Tasks

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• Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'

  Julie Burchill

  Sunday, Ideas, Clothes

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• In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

  Hugo Chavez

  Latin, Government, America

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• Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.

  Sharan Burrow

  Challenges, Important, World

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• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  Salman Rushdie

  Messages, Problem, Contemporary

  "'Everybody needs to get thicker skins'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2008.

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• I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Climate, Suggestions, Shifting

  "An interview with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm". Interview with Keith Schneider, grist.org. October 27, 2004.

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• We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.

  Michael Fox

  Animal, Emotion, Evolution

  Michael W. Fox (1980). “One Earth, One Mind”, Coward McCann

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• Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

  Marc Prensky

  Struggle, Age, Digital

  Marc Prensky (2012). “From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning”, p.69, Corwin Press

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• Avoid your comfort zone - it's probably outdated anyway.

  Donald Trump

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

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• You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Community, Progress

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• We need to reject not only outdated fossil-fuel technology, but also an outdated economic system and an outdated corporatist political system. The progressive view is that we are smart enough and ethical enough to not have to be subservient to corporations. We can create our own resilient, localized communities.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Smart, Technology, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge
  - which quickly becomes outdated -
  but in perpetually seeking it.

  Paul Johnson

  Lying, Seeking, Possessing

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• There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

  Alexandra Paul

  Fuel, Fossils, Reason

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• My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will
  be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor. I am passionate about acting.
  Girls in our family are not allowed to act is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother
  but now no more.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Girl, Mother, Father

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• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

  Emily Gould

  Meaningful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.

  Julian Huxley

  Mean, People, Doe

  "Essays of a Humanist (The New Divinity)". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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• Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).

  Allen W. Wood

  Religious, Powerful, Teaching

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

  Indira Gandhi

  Years, Twenties, World

  Source: sangam.org

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• The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Church, Realizing

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Believe, Technology

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