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“We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.”

States Turns Religious United United States Prejudice Profound Raised Debate Tolerance Islamic Zero Controversy Mosques Religious Tolerance Ground Zero

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.”

Ifs World Enough Cry Creation Claims Profound Humble Insight Dialogue Explanation Remarkable Be Humble Enriching

Book:Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue

Source: Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue

“In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.”

Levels Scientist Profound Explanation Complexity Beginning Of Life Levels Of Life

Author:Michael Behe

“As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.”

Way Humans Earth Stars Human Beings Walks Animal Middle Divine Essence Profound Strive Caught Seeking Permanent Paradox Reconcile Caught In The Middle

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our neighbors as ourselves. Imagine what good we can do in the world if we all join together, united as followers of Christ, anxiously and busily responding to the needs of others and serving those around us — our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens.”

“There is no other relationship quite like that which can and should exist between a boy and his dad. It can be one of the most nurturing, joyful relationships in life, one that can have a profound impact on who boys become and also on who dads become.”

Should Boys Dad Impact Profound Joyful Nurturing

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”

People Thinking Loss Accepting Comfortable Tragedy Profound Great Tragedy

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.”

“You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people died for. An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember just exactly what freedom is.”

People Ifs Believe Shows Remember Challenges Freedom Ideals Died Profound Burning Preserves Flags Burned Ashes Worthless Disrespect Flag Burning

Author:Mary Ruwart

“I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great combination of the traditional vernacular with his own. Hearing it unfold and being in a position to participate was a great pleasure. Part of being an accompanist is that the stronger the soloist, the more I can do all that I know to do. So, Joe was as good as it gets.”

“Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in that vast sea, The ocean of the Deity, And all they cares shall fall. In death which is the most profound, The purest life is always found; Then, blindly, all forego! He ne're shall find, who will not lose; Who sinks from self, shall gain repose, Which none but he can know.”

Knows Should Self Care Life Is Fall Found Loses Failing Sea Ocean Gains Profound Temptation Not Afraid Deities Thyself Repose

Author:Gerhard Tersteegen

“If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.”

Ifs World Firsts Long Dark Sun Hell Long Time Crosses Profound Assumption Relief Buried Resurrection Initials Whistling Dislocation

Author:Mary Karr

“We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.”

World Dream Reality Culture Commitment Profound Appeals Rejects Mature Indispensable Justified Systematic Hallmark Immaturity Dream World Gullibility Mendacity

Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.”

“Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.”

People World Profound Absence Dialogue Profound Love

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!”

Writing Matter Acting Subjects Rocks Emotional Huge Profound Suspense Packs Exquisite Subject Matter

Author:Rex Reed

“Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.”

Needed Profound Witty Clever Charm Fades Ageing Anatomy Absorbing Malaise Never Fade

Author:David Baddiel

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”

“Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of profound inspiration”

Years Looks Inspiration Humanity Source Achievement Profound Convinced Soviet Drawbacks

Author:Ronnie Kasrils

“Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.”

Writing Doe Stills Remember Technology Paper Profound Brown Bags Good Work Pyramids Haiku Paper Bags

Author:James Turrell

“Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.”

Way Inspirational Feelings Action Causes Effects Responsible Intention Profound Motivated Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Gary Zukav

“In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.”

Feelings Felt Prove Tests Profound Math Prove Myself

Author:Chris Stein

“In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.”

Facts Interest Subjects Information Profound

Book:Wittgenstein's mistress

Source: Wittgenstein's mistress

“Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.”

Humans Ideas Seems Interest Imagine Lovers Ordinary Concern Profound Radical Indifference Minors Patriot Withdrawal Depressive Lucidity

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.”

World Style Transformation Management Profound Shakes Routes

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.”

Ifs Mean Culture Common Profound Noble Horns Dilemma

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.”

People Want Humans Mean Art Pain Film Pleasure Failing Communication Succeed Art Is Profound Communicate Filmmaking

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.”

Men Whole He Man Profound Mathematician Scorn Second Rate

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.”

Desire Walks Grace Ambition Profound Grace Of God Desire To Live

Author:Bill W.

“Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.”

World Way Moments Profound Endure Despite Inevitable Fulfillment Sensations Setback Experiencing The World

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!”

“Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.”

Choices Given Audience Materials Profound Versus

Book:Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves”

“At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.”

Source: Against the Grain: (À rebours)

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

Happens Comfort Profound Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Bill Courtney

“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.”

Wells May Skills Profound Technique Mysterious Mastery

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Needs Difficult Term Land Travel Tasks Profound Stranger Insight Wander Difficult Tasks Foreign Lands

Book:Korea: a walk through the land of miracles

Source: Korea: a walk through the land of miracles

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

America Changed Civilization Profound Bypass

Book:To America with Love

Source: To America with Love

“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.”

“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.”

Thinking Moral Environment Commitment Faults Profound Oneself Warm Oppressed Conquest

Author:Robert Conquest

“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.”

“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.”

Thinking World Interest Natural Development Profound Acquire This Day Parallels Natural World Profound Love

Author:Robert B. Laughlin

“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.”

Source: Course of the History of Modern Philosophy

“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.”

Needs Believe Earth I Believe Environment Masters Areas Fundamentals Profound Wilderness Mechanism Our Environment

Book:Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser

Source: Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser

“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.”

People Writing Ideas Belief Grows Ability Emotion Support Special Profound Spread Profession Crafts Mistaken Shallow Mediocre Glamour Mystique Special Gifts

Book:Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

Source: Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

“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.”

Heart Problem Bigs Cases Special Example Theory Mathematics Profound Insight Concrete

Book:Selecta: expository writing

Source: Selecta: expository writing

“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.".”

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