Quotes with profound

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  • C. L. R. James The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Niels Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Pat Riley There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Camille Paglia There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ben Kingsley There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl Sagan We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Albert Einstein We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Marcel Proust What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Barry Commoner 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
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barbara Boxer When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bill Maris You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Albert Schweitzer By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Scott Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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