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In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.
Roberto Unger
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Roberto Unger
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 24
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Roberto M. Unger
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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.
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