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• My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Lines, Way, Attraction

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Soul

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. Chapter: "Painting and Culture", p. 58, 1948.

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• When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves us, the confusion clears and our priorities align. Our walk as disciples of Christ becomes more joyful. Our lives take on new meaning. Our relationship with our Heavenly Father becomes more profound. Obedience becomes a joy rather than a burden.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Father, Mean

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• That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

  Henry Ford

  Hands, Differences, Devil

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• I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle. I know how creative that life is, and how difficult it is to figure it out.

  Jodie Foster

  Beautiful, Mom, Struggle

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• Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

  Doris Lessing

  Might, Pressure, Form

  Doris May Lessing (1966). “Children of Violence”

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• Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

  David Sedaris

  Distance, Cities, Inspire

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, Sadness, Intuition

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• The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Way, Evolution, Describing

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1972). “On love”

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• After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  God, Reading, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2090, Delphi Classics

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• If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

  Confucius

  Music, Desire, Quality

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• And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

  Anthony Burgess

  Kissing, Stories, Lips

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.204, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

  Roman Polanski

  Movie, Inspiring, Humorous

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

  Dennis Prager

  College, Mind, Belief

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• What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Literature, Assuming

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• The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, America, Decision

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Political, Levels, Conflict

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• I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Humorous, Rights

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• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Break Up, Breakup

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• We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Jewels, Lovely

  "Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

  Libba Bray

  Sadness, Moments, Summoning

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

  Mike Royko

  Movie, Couple, Philosophy

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Husband, Underestimate, Seems

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• I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Counter Culture, Different, Reactions

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