Roberto Unger Quotes

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

Roberto Unger

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• Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Want
  • Information

• Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Love
  • Man

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Financial
  • Commitment

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Life
  • Education
  • My Life

• I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Know
  • Value
  • Never

• The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Important
  • Children

• All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Director
  • Tone

• One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children

• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Wind

• Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Respect

• And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of Order, the Fountain of Justice, and the Protector in all ages of the world of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its Government and give it all possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His providence.

  

  John Adams
  • World
  • May
  • Success

• I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

  

  Douglas Wilson

• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• You're more than another, there could never be another. To make you feel the way you do.Ohh, we just get closer. I'd fall in love all over. Every time I look at you.I don't know where I'd be, without you here with me.Life with you makes perfect sense, my best friend.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Life
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wife
  • Suffering
  • Stupidity

• Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller
  • Life
  • Science
  • Faith

• I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Actor

• When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

  

  Roberto Unger
  • Universe
  • Possible
  • Explain