Sam Harris Quotes
We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
Quotes to Explore
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
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I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in some kind of '80s revival now.
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Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
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I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
