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• He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Clothes

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me!

  Emma Bunton

  Fun, Reality, America

  "Spice girls' emma bunton". www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2007.

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• There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.

  Edmund White

  Children, Men, Imagination

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• A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)

  Neil Postman

  Book, Past, Evaluation

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.70, Penguin

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• Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

  George Orwell

  Party, Past, Expression

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.308, e-artnow

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• He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Age, Bottles

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• He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Thinking, Humanity

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Sep 17, 2014

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• Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

  Michel Faber

  Events, Life Is, Newspapers

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• Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

  Cheyenne McCray

  New York, Library, Olivia

  Cheyenne McCray (2009). “Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?” “Yeah,” I said. “Sucks,” he said. “I’m a lot better now,” I said. “I’m going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus.” “I know. I’m pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.

  John Green

  Home, Gus, Amsterdam

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.78, Penguin

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• I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dog, Witty, Home

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• Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science, Lasts, Poet

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• Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Century

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• I'm from the south side of Atlanta, College Park, and we all really care about our dress code and our apparel and our attire, so I think it's just something that started when I was growing up. Just trying to be me and up to date and being an individual at the same time.

  2 Chainz

  Growing Up, College, Thinking

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. October 2012.

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• The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Law, Logos

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 127, 1988.

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• I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every month to 200,000 pastors who are broadly called evangelicals, bringing them up to date on what is happening in Washington, in the state capitals, in the culture, and what we need to do about it. And of course I'm criticized for it, and of course I have calculated the positives and the negatives, but I have long been at peace with what I do.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Writing, Years

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• Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.

  Oliver Sacks

  Rivers, Smell, Lakes

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.

  Saul Bellow

  Soul, Would Be, Millennials

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.258, Penguin

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• Food choices affect health outcomes, and consumers need to have the latest, most up-to-date scientific information in making their food choices.

  Mark McClellan

  Choices, Needs, Outcomes

  "FDA cracks down on bogus health claims". www.cnn.com. December 18, 2002.

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• Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

  J. I. Packer

  Spiritual, Reading, Way

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• For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.

  John Bagot Glubb

  College, Years, Cities

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• My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.

  Paul Polman

  Technology, Bars, Useless

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Expectations, Tourism

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• My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

  Jack Levine

  Goal, Tradition

  "Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

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