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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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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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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We must become the change we want to see.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
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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.
