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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.

Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is sufficiently unsettled to have an opportunity for personal growth. We must always see our own feelings of uneasiness as being our chance for "making the growth choice rather than the fear choice.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

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

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

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.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

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

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

CURTAIN CALLThe world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.