Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl Sagan
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Michel de Montaigne
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure.
Gregory Nunn
There is definitely an international fascination with American pop culture, and most especially with the monsters of its own creation. But the July 7 bombings had such a profound effect on Londoners. When they realized the people who did this had grown up in their midst, they could not look externally for answers.
Brian Freeland
The profound changes that will need to take place in order to appeal to seniors is astounding.
Ken Harris
The most profound effect on children of any entertainer of his time.
Jim Henson
We're dedicating this concert to John Rutter out of profound respect to him and his contribution to choral music. What he's given the world is really remarkable.
Jeffrey Hunt
This will have a profound impact on stem-cell research. The opponents of the research will feel themselves to be vindicated.
Laurie Zoloth
The problems of this country are so profound, there's a prolonged impasse. I don't see any solution any time soon.
Sheila Coronel
That is not profound, but in a 64-way setting you are saving a lot of money.
Jonathan Schwartz
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
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston
While there is a lot of focus on children the numbers tell me that the magnitude of the excess risk is quite profound in adults.
Thomas Fleming
The social and economic implications of an aging population -- and of the baby boom in particular -- are likely to be profound for both individuals and society.
Louis Kincannon
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
Barbara Smith
The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.
Nadia Boulanger
Many of these children are going to have profound handicaps throughout their lives -- both physical and mental handicaps.
Larry Gostin
Our goal is both to enhance appreciation of one of our greatest leaders and his legacy, but, perhaps more broadly, to stimulate a broader interest in history amongst Americans of all different ages and backgrounds. It's an opportunity for profound civic renewal.
Michael Bishop
If you look at the Internet today, it does what it does really well. It's profound, but we can look at it and see some things that aren't right. The most obvious is that there is no framework for security.
David Clark
I would be probably naive to say that there was agreement on all these matters. There are, of course, profound differences in the approach of the two sides.
Albert Rohan
We're trying to get through all of this, to understand it, ... Northwest has been a good carrier for North Dakota for many decades, but they are dominant in our state, and so changes they make can have a profound impact on North Dakota and its economy.
Byron Dorgan
The project is going to have a profound influence. We are opening a door to new areas of research that will pay off over time. We'll be learning things for months and years to come.
Mark Zoback
One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.
Ray Stevenson
There were certainly feelings of regret and a deep profound sense of sorrow and sadness, that I was possibly involved in the death of this individual.
Thomas O'brien
Really, what's happening at its most profound level is that (a) folded piece of paper is allowing for a link or a bridge or a connection between the person sending and the person receiving it.
Janeen Koconis
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Leslie Stephen
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
Freeman Dyson
Prof. Van Cromphout was a man who reminds us all why we are in the business of education, ... Over nearly four decades of service to NIU, he demonstrated a profound commitment to higher education.
John Peters
Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
Ruth Stout
It has had a profound impact on us.
John Fitzsimmons
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Galway Kinnell
They really loved it. There are some people who did four. We hope (the show) will be pretty profound.
Bethany Palmer
This was new and fresh and painful for people at that time. This affected Americans in a profound and personal way.
Richard Burkert
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
We need to recognize there is a profound problem that needs to be addressed - we have too many students dropping out. We don't know what happens to those 12,000 kids. do they get jobs? Go to other school districts? Migrate out of the area? There's a complete array of reasons and we need the answers.
Walt Rulffes
We're very excited about this. We believe this can have a profound effect in getting the message out that we've got excellent learning happening that is important in the total education of the child and showing how important music education is. We want to get to the word out that people's tax dollars are really making a profound difference in the lives of our children.
Ron Chronister
Voodoo is not some kind of black magic cult. It's the distillation of very profound religious ideas that came over during the tragic era of slavery.
Wade Davis
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
James A. Michener
Ashley is a truly amazing young person who possesses profound intelligence, sharp wit and a great sense of community obligation.
Michael Curry
If you watch a six-minute film, and you're really watching it, it can be a profound experience. But you could sit through a two-hour action-adventure film and get absolutely nothing out of it, other than feeling your endorphins flow.
Matti Leshem
He was taken by his wife to a neurologist in February 1997 with profound memory loss, ... Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease. If it was bad enough in 1997 that she took him to see a neurologist, imagine how bad it is now.
Jeffrey Fisher
The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government.
Stanley Milgram
It's like a dialogue with the fiber. She listens to the fiber and doesn't ask it to do what it doesn't want. She has a profound respect for the natural world.
Jackie Borsanyi
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot
Certainly, this is a difficult circumstance and not how I'd like this opportunity to come about. I wouldn't say we were close friends or anything like that, but it has had a deep and profound impact on me the way this has come about, and I want people to know that.
Jeff Simmons
I hate to say it out loud, but I feel down deep in my heart that the LSU game had a profound effect on what we did. It affected us physically and mentally.
Mark Banker
Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.
Felipe Perez Roque
When you think about musical theater, the influence of gays and lesbians is profound.
Jeff Buhrman
A sense of well-being so profound that I did not want to go to sleep.
John Gregory Dunne
I have some grave concerns about the design of the Flatbush station because of the profound effect it will have on local businesses. This plan does not seem to work for us as we look at it now.
Maureen Mcclay
Without the support of all the (private) groups, that funding problem, of course, would be even more profound.
Don Barger
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...
Vaclav Havel
But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
Roger Sessions
The broadcast free-to-air TV industry has seen a proliferation of channels and the development of the enabled base of VCR/DVDs and game consoles. All of this has created massive competition for the eyeball and fragmented audiences. The changes now under way with Internet TV, mobile 3G and VOD are possibly even more profound.
Neil Blackley
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
I would argue that William Smith turned a lot of things on their head with this map, which was a hugely important and profound development.
Simon Winchester
The most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.
Shahid Malik
[New learning was the third factor identified.] The more you learn, the more you can learn, ... We know that new learning can have profound physiological effects on the brain.
Brian Robertson
I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman
All of this matches very well with previous observations that the amygdala is responsible for fear, anxiety and aggression. Now we're seeing that the neuroD2-deficient mice, when compared to normal littermates, show a profound difference in unconditioned anxiety levels as well as their ability to form emotional memories.
James Olson
James was a role model for all of us. He was a fair man, a benevolent man and had a profound love for people.
Thomas Walker
Seeing that made me understand how profound the drama of opera was and how music theatre is the most powerful audiovisual form there is.
Lesley Garrett
This research shows that even after the collisions happened, the earth had a profound effect on the moon.
Laramie Potts
By and large, however, we have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor widespread contamination.
Burton Bennett
The contribution of the Indian diaspora to the American technology revolution centered around Silicon Valley and elsewhere has been profound.
Josette Shiner
Not only am I so grateful that Napoleon is still alive, I'm grateful for his family, the community of Grapeland and that our very profound legal issues are still alive.
Walter Long
The Chilean people have a profound feeling of solidarity towards the American people.
Ricardo Lagos
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler
China is Russia's friendly neighbour. We hope that in car making in particular our strategic partnership will be profound and long-term.
Liang Henian
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
There was a profound love for him. He was a very approachable, decent person.
Robert Giuffra
If it is built, it is something that will have a profound affect on traffic circulation in the Winchester corridor.
Jeff Stone
If state secrecy can prevent us from preserving the rights of millions upon millions of people, then there is a profound problem with the law.
Kevin Bankston
I'm not an artist. I'm an actor. I like to goof around and clown for people. It's a fun job. But I don't feel that I'm creating something that's going to have a profound effect on the world. It's fun.
Greg Pitts
These are profound regulatory decisions.
Lester Crawford
If we get away from that word and think about what is of value to us and what we believe in and what has depth and profound meaning and longevity, then I don't think you have to be too sheepish about it.
Joseph Polisi
I see about three movies a year, so I'm not a film critic, ... But this movie is a powerful work of art. It shows how ordinary events and lives become something profound.
Artur Davis
That's because a woman's hormones have a profound effect on everything that impacts her wedding - her mood, energy, confidence and even how in love she feels with her betrothed. When women know how their hormones make them feel every day, they know the best day of their cycle to pick for their big day.
Gabrielle Lichterman
Diane Arbus changed the face of photography with her powerful and moving photographs which captured 1950s and 1960s America. She has had a profound influence on photographers ever since and on the way we look at our fellow human beings. This is a long overdue retrospective which shows her work is as compelling as ever.
Mark Jones
It has been a challenging experience to go back, and the type of challenge is different for everyone I take there. Some people I interview are off guard by how disturbing it really is, and some are ready to say goodbye. Some have a profound hunger to go back. My impression is that it is a healing experience, and the audience, through the filming, is healed by the reaction to going there.
Lucy Winer
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Shirley MacLaine
China's announcement of wanting to diversify their foreign-exchange reserves holdings is going to have a profound effect on financial markets worldwide.
Peter Grandich
We decided to produce five mascots instead of one, because we think no single figure can embody China's profound and diversified culture.
Han Meilin
Citations are an acknowledgement of intellectual debt. The impressive number of citations these exceptional researchers have received is evidence of their profound influence on modern scientific thought.
Christopher King
There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.
Heinz R. Pagels
The mutual-beneficial cooperation between China and Brazil and their joint efforts in seeking common prosperity will not only benefit the interests of the two peoples but also have a profound impact on the development of Asia and the Latin America.
Li Changchun
It wasn't anything profound from me at halftime. We just kind of stuck to our game plan and it came right in the second half.
Jack Clark
That could have a really profound impact.
Greg Scandlen
His contribution to the world is quite profound.
Kevin Durkin
The administration projected the economy would gain 306,000 new jobs each month once the tax package was passed, ... So far, this has been a profound failure.
Lawrence Mishel
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.
Craig Venter
We were shocked by the results. This study shows that at least in mice, diet can have a more profound effect on heart disease than any drug that we could imagine.
Leslie Leinwand
William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all the performing arts, more profound and more widespread than any other writer who has ever lived.
Peter Selley
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
Van Wyck Brooks
When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impactupon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.
Sasha Azevedo
The most profound things are inexpressible.
Jenny Holzer
Devastation from the hurricanes was so profound.
Kathy Ireland
My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.
Laura Linney
Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
Joseph Ratzinger
The DHS Financial Accountability Act imposes profound challenges to us - DHS is the first Cabinet department required to have an audit of its internal controls over financial reporting.
Andrew Maner
It's not profound literature, but it's an adventure story and quite a good adventure story, very unexpected coming from Brando. It tells us a lot about him.
David Thomson
The hardening of the borders makes people far less likely to make that trek more than once. They're integrated into families. They have children born here and sometimes legal spouses. (The House bill) would have a profound effect on American families.
Benjamin Johnson
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
Kenny Guinn
This sale will be a truly exceptional event. With the exception of the great spiritual leaders, his influence on Western culture is more profound than any individual who has lived.
Peter Selley
This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt.
Jackie Speier
Clouds grossly affect the greenhouse effect on the planet. So they play a very profound role in weather and climate. Yet taken altogether they are one of the most poorly understood aspects of the climate change problem.
Graeme Stephens
There should be no doubt that instability in the region should have a profound impact on the long-term risk assessment globally.
Alan Ruskin
This Buddha represents the meeting of East and West. When Alexander the Great invaded Eastern Asia he brought with him a Greek influence that had a profound effect on the way Asian statues would come to be sculpted. This is a prime example.
Hiroko Koyama
The will and the culture of this nation in ways that are everlasting and profound.
Diane Feinstein
In the face of a rapidly changing world, the people of our beloved country have once again demonstrated a commitment to hard work and courage. It is now evident that everything that occurs beyond our borders can have a profound impact upon how we live, the problems with which we have to grapple and the quality of life, which our people will enjoy.
Denzil Douglas
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
Jan Morris
Every day we make decisions that could have a profound impact on the Hudson.
John Cronin
What did I say? Let me think. I just said, good game. That was it. It wasn't too profound. He said thank you, but he was in a hurry. He didn't know who I was.
Anthony Gonzalez
We really have to make profound changes. I'm really looking forward to working hard and diligently . . . To make sure we can change our ways and fulfill our responsibility to future generations.
Elizabeth Weir
If you insist on having things reserved and purchased from the U.S. beforehand, rather than arranging to purchase them locally, that can have a profound effect on costs.
Edward Hasbrouck
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
Edward Tufte
This decision is the result of the realization that there is a profound disagreement between the sports philosophy that has always been driving Michelin and the management practices of the F1 authorities.
Edouard Michelin
Chen's works are profound. Viewers would have different emotions when the installations are performed in different places and times.
Zhang Qing
Floro is a profound analyst of soccer. Floro knows Real Madrid well and is a Madrid fan.
Emilio Butragueno
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