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You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots.

You don't ask questions of an attic

You too must seek the sun...

‎"Your heart is in your chest. It supplies the blood to your cells. Even if you don't think about it, your heart is always pumping. The heart is the most important organ in the body. Without it, you will die. "'What grade are you teaching these days?' Joel asked. ' Because either this is really sad...or really profound.

Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are - my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks - we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We admit that it's legal, constitutional, that the private sector is entitled to its own economy, but to ensure these profound changes that clearly this government is promoting, including profound changes in the food industry, what we are doing is an important step.

Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?

After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

All truth is profound.

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.

Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

As you begin to live in the present moment, you will experience a subtle but profound change.  Worrying about the future will cease.  A deep peace will enfold you, a peace that says, 'all is well.  There is nothing to fear.  Everything is unfolding according to plan, and you are being guided each step along the way.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Baby, I'm yours until two and two is three.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition

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.

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

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

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

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

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.