U Quotes
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“Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique individuality and personal identity”
Source: Apologia: A Collection of Christian Essays
“Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.”
“Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.”
“Unlike others who let it eat them up and took it to their graves, I refused to be that Chinese kid walking everywhere with his head down. I wanted my dignity, my identity, and my pride back; I wanted them to know there were repercussions to the things they said. There were no free passes on my soul and everything they stole from me I decided I'd take back double. (81)”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“Unlike others, your success may be the most difficult process, but you do not have to measure your prospects of success based on other people's experiences. You have to follow divine steps and progress.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Unlike our ancient ancestors, we live in a world that is slowly but surely being poisoned by technology, industry and human encroachment on the natural world. [...]
As industry and technology systematically destroy the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, out health problems ahve increased dramatically. While modern medical science has virtually eliminated the virulent diseases that threatened the lives of our ancestors (smallpox, diptheria, polio, typhoid fever), a different kind of disease process is gradually destroying the body's ability to protect and heal itself.”
Source: The Five Elements of Self-Healing: Using Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity, Wellness, and Health
“Unlike our politicians and our religions, the current coronavirus pandemic has managed to make us care about the health of even those we hate, especially those we are likely to come across.”
“Unlike pain, happiness, no matter how big it is, doesn’t last long.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“Unlike Penn and those who stood to profit from the acquisition of land, Lenape sachems sought trade goods and payments for their lands in order to distribute the wealth to their communities. Penn, an eyewitness and careful observer of Lenape sachems, noted that 'wealth circulates like blood, all parts partake.”
Source: A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
“Unlike people from any other time in history, we know what we are looking at when we look up upon the night sky.”
Source: At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds
“Unlike people, pi is forever, it doesn't just die, and it doesn't just end. It's constant, but at the same time there's no pattern to it. It's different. Unpredictable.”
Source: The Hoodie Girl
“Unlike photography, writing has always been a ruthless and unrelenting teacher, a demanding lover, a sparring partner that leaves me bruised and scarred, but the satisfaction I’ve always gained from completing a writing project is unmatched. Not much else compares.”
Source: Compositions of Black Joy: A Visual Chronicle of the Philadelphia Juneteenth Festival
“Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.”
“Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the economic interpretation of the complex and incompletely known facts of experience, and lead one a very little way towards establishing useful results.”
Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography
“Unlike plants, human beings can grow if they're moving forward.”
“Unlike politicians, the Lord is not pivoting his plans on the basis of poll numbers.”
Source: End of the Christian Life
“Unlike popular belief, the biggest challenge with investing is not where to invest.
It is about starting to invest, and then continuing to invest through thick and thin, until your target is reached.”
Source: The Autobiography Of A Stock
“Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961
“Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks. Information is our primary weapon against this enemy, and intelligence gathered from captured operatives is perhaps the most effective means of preventing future attacks.”
“Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.”
Source: Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative
“Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.”
“Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.”
“Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory.”
“Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.”
Source: Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective
“Unlike rational thought, intuition cannot be 'taught' or even turned on. In fact, it is impossible to find or manipulate this intuitive consciousness using our rational mind—any more than we can grasp our own hand or see our own eye.”
“Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.”
Source: Shopgirl: A Novella
“Unlike Reich's work, which excavates trauma stored in the body's armor, CBT cannot penetrate the subconscious terrain where pre-verbal wounds, shadow selves, and somatic imprints reside.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.”
“Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about their risks the way food packages provide nutritional data.”
“Unlike Ronan, Adam's Aglionby jumper was second-hand, but he'd taken great care to be certain it was impeccable. He was slim and tall, with dusty hair unevenly cropped above a fine-boned, tanned face. He was a sepia photograph.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.”
“Unlike Saturn who prefers limiting its territory to a manageable size, Jupiter actually goes out and takes chances. And surprisingly, the more chances one seems to take, the more likely one can find opportunities.”
Source: Success Astrology: Your Celestial Map of Success
“Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.”
“Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and gossipy, yet scrupulously researched, drawing on numerous on-the-record conversations (as well as many not-for-attribution interviews) with prominent Democrats and Clinton insiders, past and present.”
“Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.”
“Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.”
“Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.”
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“Unlike seeking, which is result-oriented and rooted in a sense of dissatisfaction and incompleteness, this kind of meditative inquiry is rooted in curiosity, interest and love. Much as a lover explores the beloved, this nondual, nonconceptual inquiry is an act of love and devotion. Much as a child explores the world with open curiosity and wonder, this kind of inquiry is a form of play and self-discovery.”
Source: Nothing to Grasp
“Unlike sex, sensuality is subject to no limitation. The possibilities of how deep you can go are inconceivably and immeasurably great, only limited by your imagination.”
“Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.”
“Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.”
“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.”
Source: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
“Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.”
“Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.”
“Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.”
“Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.”
Source: A Fan's Notes
“Unlike some of my other dharma brothers who got names that were very long and obscure, and nobody could remember or pronounce, that they didn't like. They wanted to give their names back, but it wasn't like that, it wasn't transactional. He would name some people and say 'you're married', and then they were married, but you know it wasn't really transactional.”
“Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.”
“Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.”
“Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.”