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• Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

  Lawrence Klein

  Depression, Growing Up, Impact

  "Lawrence R. Klein - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2005.

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• To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cosmos, Purpose, Answers

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• The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Land, Space Flight

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• Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Ideas

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• The ad industry isn't struggling for a new set of principles or abandoning the ones that made it great from the start. It's simply in the midst of a business cycle. I don't think it's more profound than that. And despite the economic downturn, I'm having more fun today than at any other moment in my 30-year advertising career. The game is more interesting and more relevant than ever.

  Rochelle B Lazarus

  Fun, Struggle, Thinking

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• Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

  Edward Lucie-Smith

  Photography, Art, Exercise

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• Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Fashion, Simple, Men

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.219, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

  David Suzuki

  Truth, Discovery, World

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• We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or choices. The only significant choice we will have will be how we adjust to this new regime. That choice - not whether, but how to reduce energy usage and make a transition to renewable alternatives - will have profound ethical and political ramifications.

  Richard Heinberg

  Years, Choices, Effort

  Richard Heinberg (2005). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, p.6, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

  David Brooks

  Morning, Sunset, Average

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• I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

  Robert Frost

  Spiritual, Healing, Add

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• Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

  George Friedman

  Self, Understanding, Disease

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• What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

  Roger Sessions

  Levels, Lasts, Firsts

  Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press

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• There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its radiance, its fragrance, its stillness is another moment's experience of something deeper within. When we hold a baby, when we hear extraordinary music, when we look into the eyes of a great saint, what draws us is that deep homesickness for our true nature, for the peace and healing that is our birthright. This homesickness for God directs us toward the healing we took birth for.

  Stephen Levine

  God, Baby, Flower

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• The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Reflection

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

  Drew Barrymore

  Tattoo, Imperfection, Arms

  Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 7, 2013.

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• For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Kings

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Running, Country

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Grief, Mourning, Human Experience

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1995). “Voices of Death”, Kodansha Globe

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• The most profound things are inexpressible.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art

  Jenny Holzer, Söke Dinkla (2006). “Die Macht des Wortes”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.

  Roger Ebert

  Silly, People, Desire

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.388, University of Chicago Press

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• Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Stars, Memories, Children

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• Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

  William J. Clinton

  Change, Powerful, Our World

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1, Best Books on

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• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Technology, World

  Interview with Alan Hall, June 23, 1997.

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• I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

  Roland Allen

  Believe, Thinking, Needs

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