Quotes with profound

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  • Bill Gates I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ben Carson If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Billy Joel 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.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ben Marcus In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Asa Gray It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Brad Feld Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Blythe Danner Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley 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
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Alfred Jodl My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge No man was ever yet a great poet, without begin at the same time a profound philosopher.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Toni Morrison No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • George Eliot Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Albert Camus Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • C. L. R. James The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • David Hume The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Virginia Woolf The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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