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"My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be."
"Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean."
"Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are."
"The racism is so profound and the recognition - the kind of deep recognition that you have to humiliate. It's not about to killing or torture. It's to humiliate. So the oppressed feel degraded. And both the oppressed understand and the oppressors understand. It's constant."
"Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion."
"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
"Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head."
"I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact."
"Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end."
"Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone."
"Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder."
"He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters."
"We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos."
"Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me."
"She makes love just like a woman."
"The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode"
"My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result."
"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive."
"Today, more pastors than ever need profound encouragement and rejuvenation."
"I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins."
