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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own.

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

'Rocky' is an incredibly human story, and 'Creed' is very inspired by the Rocky lore, but there's something kind of profound in letting it all go. This is the first time I'm co-writing, and I'm learning as I go. This process is so different from 'Fruitvale'; hopefully it gets made.

I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

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.

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.

As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

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

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.

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.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision. It is not enough to change the name of the armed forces. It is necessary to change the minds of those people who only yesterday wore a military uniform.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

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.

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

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.

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

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

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.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

Music has had a profound effect on me all my life. I wanted to be able to give that to others, believe it or not.

One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

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,

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

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,

I grew up in the segregated South at a time when 'We Shall Overcome' was the anthem of a movement that would change America forever. In the hands of the committed singer/songwriter, music conveys profound emotions that words alone can never express.

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.

My hope is many of the problems we saw recently hopefully can be alleviated or at least lessened. These aren't just glitches. They can have a profound impact on our elections. We need to do everything in our power to ensure that voters not only are able to vote, but have that vote counted.

Of all these examples, the simplest but the most profound is the fact that it takes at least two somethings to create a difference.