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• Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Opportunity, People, Promise

  Ban Ki-moon's closing remarks at High Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, www.un.org. September 22, 2010.

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• As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Life, Survival, Way

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• ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Hero, People

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• In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Bullying, Night

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• Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Business, Competition, Enemy

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• Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Errors, Everyday, Genius

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• But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Spring, Science

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Art, Philosophy

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Contarini Fleming and The rise of Iskander”, p.276

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• Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

  Billy Graham

  Inspiring, Character, Angel

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Creative

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life, still is to this day. Born in meager surroundings in rural South Carolina.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Mom, Children

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Suffering

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• Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Heart, Knowing

  John Bunyan (1859). “The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical”, p.102

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• We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

  John Dewey

  Science, Reflection, Data

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• The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Science, Separation

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• I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

  Benjamin Banneker

  God, Gratitude, Science

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• I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Believe, Science

  The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II C. Darwin to Asa Gray May 22nd [1860] (p. 105)

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• I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

  Bernard Williams

  Humorous, Lazy Man, Laziness

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• This is not just about women. We men need to recognize the part we play, too. Real men treat women with the dignity and respect they deserve.

  Prince Harry

  Real, Men, Play

  "28 Famous Men Who Prove You Don’t Need To Be A Woman To Be A Feminist" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2014.

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• If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

  Aziz Ansari

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "Aziz Ansari Explains Why We Should All Be Feminists" by Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

  Ryan Gosling

  Strong, Character, Female

  "These Celebrity Men Love Their Moms, Would Totally Make Them Their Valentines" by April Sperry, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2014.

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• So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

  Daniel Craig

  Asking, Answers, Gender Equality

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• My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

  Jon Hamm

  Powerful, White, People

  "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" by David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.

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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.

  Will Smith

  Decision, Feminism, Going Out

  "Will Smith: I Wanted My Life to Be Like 'Dallas'" Mary Margaret, parade.com. May 3, 2012.

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