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• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

  Richard Holbrooke

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• Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

  Charles Baudelaire

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• Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

  Charles Baudelaire

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• Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

  Emile Lahoud

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• When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

  Vera Wang

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• I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

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• Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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