Profoundly Quotes
435 Profoundly quotes by 373 unique authors
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An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal…
— Aravind Adiga
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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as…
— James Frey
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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy…
— Kate DiCamillo
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head…
— Ted Dekker
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We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
— Edie Falco
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We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult…
— Nina Fedoroff
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Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
— Michel Houellebecq
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There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.
— Marian Keyes
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The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to…
— Charles Petzold
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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends…
— Jim Sanborn
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It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.
— Kedar Joshi
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If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and…
— Kedar Joshi
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We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not…
— Will Durant
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have…
— Albert Schweitzer
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God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us…
— Marianne Williamson
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I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence…
— Tony Blair
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This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
— Douglas Trumbull
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You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
— Christopher Nolan
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So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
— Michael A. Ledeen
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Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And…
— Chris Shays
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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks…
— Walter Darby Bannard
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