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• The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

  Iain Banks

  Usual, Tactics, Sides

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests", Section I, p. 66), 1996.

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• Make sure you're doing impressions of people that are still relevant, and that everyone knows. Red Skelton impressions are a little outdated.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Littles, Red

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 11, 2014.

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• We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.

  Seth Klarman

  Believe, Views, Common Sense

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• I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!

  Eric Thomas

  People, Want, Helping

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated “toy” continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry.

  Michael Almereyda

  Children, Humble, Flames

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• Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

  Diplo

  Thinking, Mp3, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

  Nick Kroll

  Fun, Long, Interesting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Team, Humble

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teacher, Children

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

  Max Weber

  Science, Fulfillment, Questioning

  Max Weber (1968). “On Charisma and Institution Building”, p.298, University of Chicago Press

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• Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.

  Agnes Denes

  Writing, Expression, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution ... The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Practice, White

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• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  Adam McKay

  Special, Savages, Action

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• If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Doubt, Guilt

  "America divided on death penalty, Troy Davis". www.cnn.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.

  David Letterman

  Iphone, Hands, Two

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• Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Taken, Next Steps

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.

  Simon Hoggart

  Fire, Two, Sweaters

  "Simon Hoggart's week: TV guilt and swanupmanship at Vintners' dinner" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• If we stay in one place, we will become outdated

  Satoru Iwata

  Ifs

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• I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

  Ray Nagin

  Taken, Thinking, Scratches

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• Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Forgiveness, Long, May

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• Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

  Big Sean

  Long, May, Stuff

  "Big Sean Talks Def Jam Debut, Detroit Roots, and Working With Kanye & Pharrell". Interview with Modele "Modi" Oyewole, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

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• As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.

  Andrew Ference

  Hockey, Nhl, Rich Life

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• I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

  Steven Soderbergh

  People, Film, Response

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• Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a true leader by stop exploiting children. I guarantee the millennials market you’re after will reward you for it. I know the public health world will applaud you, starting with myself.

  Michele Simon

  Children, Leader, Creepy

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• Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

  Sue Kelly

  Jobs, Corny, Small Business

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