Modernization Quotes

• The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

  Lawrence Summers

  Important, Economic History, Asian

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• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  Major Owens

  School, Technology, Together

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• The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

  Barbara Boxer

  Hurt, Rights, Government

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• It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

  John Sununu

  Technology, Years, Worry

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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 L. Berger

  Mistake, Thinking, Hands

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• The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

  Charles Bass

  Military, Technology, Effort

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• As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

  Sue Kelly

  Believe, Drug, Quality

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• Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

  Samuel Wilson

  Desire, Grows, Insatiable

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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

  Country, Views, People

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• When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.

  Patrick Bergin

  Goodbye, Wildlife, Economic

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hands, People, Guy

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• I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Tasks, Abstract

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• Modernization means Westernization.

  Camille Paglia

  Mean

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• [Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

  Manmohan Singh

  Urbanization, Growth, Outcomes

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in sixteenth-century Spain, which is already going through secularization, industrialization, modernization. He goes out to kill a giant, and instead he collides with this huge windmill and injures himself and also damages the windmill. I think that's a metaphor for the collisions we all have over time, as our ideas of ourselves get out of synch with the historical moment.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, Ideas, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Long, Effort

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.

  Tom Stoppard

  Hell

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• [To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Believe, Science, Men

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• We will start by modernizing our cruisers to provide the ballistic missile defense capability our nation needs. This will cost around $220 million per modernization as we seek to modernize a significant portion of these 22 ships. It will also mean jobs for our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

  Manmohan Singh

  Thinking, Chinese, Economy

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• These new investments in cyber security and the modernization of our military will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. It's what we have to do. America must be the world's dominant technological powerhouse of the twenty-first century, and young Americans - including in our inner cities - should get these new jobs!

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Military, Technology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Nuclear, Development, Weapons

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• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Middle East, Matter, Be Careful

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• I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world.

  Phil Robertson

  Men, World, Lows

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• If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

  Alain Juppe

  Choices, President, France

  "Chirac, French conservatives stung by election result". www.cnn.com. May 26, 1997.

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