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• Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wind, Spirit, Effects

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• We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal, one which will guarantee Israel security. At the same time, we will do our utmost to defend and protect Israel, for unless Israel is strong and secure, then peace will always be beyond our grasp. We were with Israel at the beginning, 41 years ago. We are with Israel today. And we will be with Israel in the future. No one should doubt this basic committment.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Israel, Years

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• I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

  Jane Jacobs

  Mean, Want, Trouble

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our founding fathers. They set forth principles that have endured for than more two centuries. Those principles are as meaningful and relevant in each generation as the generation before. It would be a profound privilege for me to play a role in applying those principles to the questions and controversies we face today.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Meaningful, Father, Play

  Sonia sotomayor's speech after being nominated by Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, content.time.com. May 26, 2009.

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• When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

  Dr. John

  Voice, Vision, Opinion

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• I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.

  Liz Phair

  Beautiful, Smart, Stupid

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• The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, World, Who We Are

  "Stating the obvious, but oh so cleverly" by Jason Cowley, www.theguardian.com.

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• For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Knowledge, Fire

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• I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Humorous, People, Insane

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.85, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

  Gene Kelly

  Girl, Kids, College

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• The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Long, Climate

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here - is really much more profound than what seems to separate us.

  Richard E. Berendzen

  Believe, Discovery, Justice

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• Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

  Jean Cocteau

  Believe, Fall, Inspiration

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• Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.

  Rene Konig

  Fashion, Sex, Men

  René König (1973). “A la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion”

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• I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me.'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  "If Harry Potter Doesn’t Believe In The Friend Zone, Neither Should You". Buzzfeed Brews Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2014.

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• When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Children, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Bisexual, Compassion

  EdWatch National Education Conference, November 06, 2004.

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• Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Sex, Philosophical

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• When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational, Teacher, Appreciation

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• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

  Saraha

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Relaxation, Purpose

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

  Marilyn Wann

  Self Esteem, Home, Body

  "Is weight the new race?" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.

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• In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Passion

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.3

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