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• If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and fighting wars, the results will be profound. We will gradually lose our successful workforce.

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Attitude, War

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• The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

  Nikola Tesla

  Change, Science, Unique

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• Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Commitment

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• War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly poor, or disadvantaged humans, for nothing but the greed of the few. Only we the people can make war obsolete by not participating in the profound crimes of the profiteers and other war mongers.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Class, People

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• You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

  Sacha Guitry

  Inspirational, Witty, Powerful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

  Ross Macdonald

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Drowning Pool”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Silence, Soul

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation.
  Once you have met with the profound instructions from a meditation master,
  with single pointed determination, set about realizing the Truth.

  Milarepa

  Determination, Practice, Meditation

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• How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Sleep, Night

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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• Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

  Timothy Leary

  Hippie, Vision, Labels

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Memories, Grief, Loss

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1995). “Voices of Death”, Kodansha Globe

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• Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Ignorance, Justice, Greed

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• ... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Believe, People, Justice

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• We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come.

  George W. Bush

  Morning, Grief, Condolences

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• Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design Process

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• In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues still to come into being. It begins with the darkening of the understanding, continues with the excitement of the imagination, stimulates desire in the heart, and culminates in an act of the will

  Herman Bavinck

  Fall, Heart, Simple

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• We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Discovery, Civilization

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

  Ruth Stout

  Garden, Giving, Inner Peace

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

  Mark Hatfield

  Peace, Children, Feet

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• Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

  Diane Black

  Humorous, Humility, Space

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• There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Believe, School

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, New York, Science

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Happiness, Emotional, Understanding

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.

  Drew Barrymore

  Country, Children, Life Changing

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