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Gene Wolfe Author
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"Woody Allen once said: "You know there must be intelligent life in space. The question is do they have good Chinese restaurants and do they deliver?" Which is really a joke, but it is also a very profound remark. When you say do they have good Chinese restaurants, what you're really saying is, "How much are they like us?" And when you say, "Do they deliver?" you're saying, "Can they get here?" Both of which are profound questions. And at the present, we have no answers."

Space Intelligent Profound
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George Leonard Philosopher
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"For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels."

Two Journey Profound
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare."

Ends Profound Delicacy
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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet
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"Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound."

Names Joy Profound
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style."

Love Passion Profound
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
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"Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute."

Religious Profound Paradise
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities."

World Views Profound
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy."

People Men Profound
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled."

Knowing Dirty Profound
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any."

Beautiful Perfect Profound
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Tanith Lee Author
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"She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening."

Sleep Essence Profound
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it."

Long Sight Profound
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
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"Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths."

Honest Profound Quiet
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"I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique."

Bird Profound Museums
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