Profound Quotes - Page 18

• I embrace the concept of enlightened self-interest - that in doing something for others, people also reap profound benefits for themselves. It might involve a little bit of sacrifice and discipline, but, and this is so crucial to understand, that participation has given me back so, so much more than I have given it.

  Simon McKeon

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Self

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• If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.

  Michael Leunig

  Wisdom, Country, Nature

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• Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

  Lars Svendsen

  Boredom, Anthropomorphism, Anthropocentrism

  Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.88, Reaktion Books

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• One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

  Lars Svendsen

  Bored, Impossible, Mood

  Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.114, Reaktion Books

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• After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

  Tony Blair

  Terrible Events, World, Lasts

  "They said...", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Reading, Eye

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.158, University of Iowa Press

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• The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

  Joseph Fourier

  Teaching, Math, Discovery

  Joseph Fourier (2007). “The Analytical Theory of Heat (Unabridged)”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Kids, Writing

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• But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Mean, America

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• Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Revenge, Grateful, Power

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• It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Depression, Humorous, Responsibility

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• The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world - to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spiritual, Sweet, Nature

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• Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

  Harold Klemp

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland Raiders has been profound for decades. To view his contribution and influence on a season-by-season basis does not make sense: he has dominated the industry for a lifetime. I can't tell you how he may have impacted or guided other individuals during their careers but I can speak from personal experience. He inspires me to be better every day than I was the day before.

  Amy Trask

  Football, Views, Oakland

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• The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.

  Beauford Delaney

  Thinking, Way, Breathe

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• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  Barbara Kruger

  Tvs, Influence, Moments

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• If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest.

  John Glenn

  Self, Years, People

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• You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes.

  Liam Neeson

  Feelings, Earth, Sometimes

  "Neeson says his wife's death still doesn't feel real", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2014.

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• If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.

  Sam Neill

  America, Wire, Watches

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• Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie so much. Maybe I could watch it for entertainment purposes, but you have so little input and control of the final product once you’re done that I feel like I just would rather leave it alone. It kind of leaves me in a place where every film I do, I’m kind of having to reinvent and figure out how to start again fresh, and hopefully not repeat myself.

  Jared Leto

  Hopefully Not, Watches, Finals

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• Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of myself. You feel you want to be there and not miss out on anything. It's a true joy and a very profound love. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is the most extraordinary thing I've ever taken on.

  Brad Pitt

  Children, Book, Love You

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

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• My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.

  Mel Gibson

  People, Levels, Messages

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• Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

  David Boreanaz

  Children, Growing Up, Dad

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• Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

  Christine Baranski

  Mother, Children, Losing

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