Ray Kurzweil Quotes
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
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I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.
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It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
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I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.
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Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.
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The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.
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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.
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In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.
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I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
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We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself.
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
