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• Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

  Bill Courtney

  Comfort, Happens, Zone

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• It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Skills, Technique, Mastery

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing to encounter such serious and sustained attention to the building blocks of inquiry—and to the responsibilities thereby incurred. Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinow’s other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal.

  Marilyn Strathern

  Fashion, Block, Philosophy

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• The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

  Simon Winchester

  Travel, Land, Tasks

  Simon Winchester (2004). “Korea: a walk through the land of miracles”, ePenguin

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• America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

  A. A. Gill

  Civilization, America, Bypass

  A.A. Gill (2013). “To America with Love”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Book, Passion, Past

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• To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

  Robert Conquest

  Commitment, Thinking, Faults

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• Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has a remarkable ability to present the wisdom of the Buddha's teachings in a manner that is as fresh and accessible as it is profound. With Rebel Buddha, he goes straight to the core of the spiritual path, showing how the Buddha's liberating insights transcend race, religion, and culture. This book is sure to provoke, inspire, and move us one step closer to creating a thoroughly modern approach to spirituality.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Moving, Book

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• In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Thinking, Development, World

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• When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.

  Victor Cousin

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Race

  Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32

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• I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment.

  Howard Zahniser

  Believe, Needs, Fundamentals

  Howard Zahniser, Ed Zahniser, George D. Davis, Paul Schaefer, Douglas W. Scott (1992). “Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser”, North Country Books Incorporated

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• The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Janet Burroway (1982). “Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft”, Little Brown and Company

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• The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases.

  Paul Halmos

  Heart, Special, Example

  Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag

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• Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow when you grow up... profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race... Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, "I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.".

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Growing Up, Children, Thinking

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• The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

  James C. Collins

  Essence, Simplicity, Insight

  "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't". Book by James C. Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2001.

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• Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

  Laozi

  Order, Taoism, Virtue

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• Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

  Laozi

  Light, Doors, Dust

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• Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

  Laozi

  Essence, Taoism, Excellence

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• All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfect, Miracle, Universe

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.184, St. Martin's Press

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• Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.

  Charles S. Maier

  Real, Long, Meditation

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• With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'

  Charles S. Maier

  Disappointment, Reality, Hands

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• The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

  Ernest Hello

  Simple, Impossible, Holy

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• One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

  Andrew Schneider

  Change, Two, People

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Cicely')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, May 18, 1992.

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• Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.

  Ruth Stout

  Garden, Giving, Accomplishment

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

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