"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
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"But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities—its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us."
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"I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy."
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"Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!"
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"Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference."
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"I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them."
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"It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live."
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"Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void."
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire."
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"She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care."
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"One should never be where one does not belong."
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"I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically."
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"My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines."
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"All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any."
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"She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself."
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"A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!"
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"Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies."
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"people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice."
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"Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires."
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"There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important."
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