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• Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.

  Peter Senge

  Organization, Humanity, Collaboration

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• An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

  David Corbett

  Regret, Character, Pride

  "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

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• The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Recovery, Simple

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• The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

  Gautama Buddha

  Way, Easy, Embrace

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• John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings make, that in spite of everything, we will always make. To quote from the book, 'What he saw in the people was what the old anthropologists called communitas. It wasn't that the people sang and moved. It was their singing and moving together' Singing and moving together, Wood has found a way to express this profound and beautiful idea through fiction.

  Peter Orner

  Beautiful, Moving, Book

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• I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

  Banksy

  Writing, Names, Philosopher

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• Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

  Philip Appleman

  Atheist, Simplicity, Meaning Of Life

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• This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Clerks, Physics

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• The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation, man to man, is an essential part of every religious and social order. The health of our society depends upon a deep and abiding respect for the basic commandments of the God of Israel.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Religious, Teaching, Men

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• This is the most religious country in the world and sometimes we try to stifle that fact or hide it. But the profound and ultimately most important reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of the same awesome God.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Blessed, Reality

  "Lieberman Says ADL Misunderstood". Joe Leberman's address to the religious leaders at an interfaith breakfast in Chicago, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2000.

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• There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

  Roland Allen

  Reality, Wrath, Race

  Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.70, Gideon House Books

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• The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

  James A. Michener

  Artist, Arrogance

  "The Michener Phenomenon". Interview with Caryn James, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1985.

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• The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Taken, Reality, Unity

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• The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. We've offered President Bush and the American people our solidarity, our profound sympathy, and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens of many countries round the world, including Britain, will have been caught up in this terror.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Prayer, People

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

  Felipe Perez Roque

  Sadness, Loss, Rejection

  "World mourns attack victims", www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.

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• I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Dark, Sorrow

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• We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.

  Peter London

  Beauty, Art, Lying

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.

  Joe Biden

  Order, Historical, Agendas

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Years, Ideas

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• I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Cutting, Math

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Impact, Challenges

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• Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for the Motherland and patriotism. Patriotism in the best sense of that word. Incidentally, I think that to a certain extent, to a significant extent, this is also attributable to the American people.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

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• Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 11, 2014

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• There are very few profound sayings in the world.

  Jeff Rich

  World

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• We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Vanity, Effort, Awareness

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

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