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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.

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 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.

I believe the country faces a critical crossroad and that the decisions that are made - or not made - within the next 10 years or so will have a profound effect on the future of our country, our children and our grandchildren. The problem gets bigger every day, and the tidal wave gets closer every day.

I am shocked and grief-stricken to learn of Sun's death, and express profound sorrow and condolences for you and your family.

Cardinal Mahony speaking out unleashed something really big. He, the church, made this issue public in a very profound way.

But French legislators aren't just looking at Apple. They're looking ahead to a time when most entertainment is online, a shift with profound consequences for consumers and culture in general. French lawmakers want to protect the consumer from one or two companies holding the keys to all of its culture, just as Microsoft holds the keys to today's desktop computers... Apple may not qualify as a literal monopoly -- there are lots of ways to get music and buying online accounts for only a small fraction of total music sales. But the sliver it does control it controls almost completely, and it's not out of the question to suggest that this sliver will ultimately become the only way people will buy music in the future.

But as we struggle to make sense of our profound loss and its immediate consequences for the economy, ... we must not lose sight of our longer-run prospects, which have not been significantly diminished by these terrible events.

China's announcement of wanting to diversify their foreign-exchange reserves holdings is going to have a profound effect on financial markets worldwide.

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.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.

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.

He had a tremendous impact on my life on many aspects of it, so it was very difficult, ... He was my defense partner, my roommate, my coach when I had my best year and then I worked at Coca-Cola with him for 10 years. So both personally and professionally he's had a profound influence on my life and it's tough to see his family going through this.

Having grown up in the housing projects of North Philly, I understand the profound value of Olympic dreams.

What we found is that simply tagging a plant and measuring it weekly, over the course of a growing season, has a profound implication on the size of the plant. At the end, they tend to be smaller.

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.

Her lyrical artistry is nothing short of revolutionary. It's the art with the most profound sexual politics I've ever seen anywhere.

Gold isn't a hedge against inflation. It's a flight from the dollar, which is much more profound problem.

History will mark its day of sadness when a great liberator of the Filipino people and a champion of God passed away, ... his wisdom and profound love for the poor and oppressed.

We met on the beach and I offered him a game of tennis. He refused at first but when I offered to play doubles together, he agreed. You know the rest. Meeting Yeltsin simply changed not only my life but also had a profound effect on Russian tennis.

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.

Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the U.K. and in the United States for over 40 years, ... I had the most profound respect for his remarkable talent.

Kids are exposed to this at incredibly early ages, when their brains are going through profound developmental changes. This has caught parents off guard. (Porn) has always been there, but it's always been in a lower volume.

It is a fundamental and profound disappointment. The government made a goal to have reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. All they have is promises.

It had such a profound affect on me as a 9-year-old that it made me want to make films. The next day I got my parents' Super 8 movie camera and started to do stop-motion animation with a clay dinosaur.

It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.

I think something had gone a bit wrong with the translation, because one of the reviewers said to me 'Bridget Jones's Diary' was a 'transcendental study of existential despair.' So, naturally, I was delighted that someone had at last recognized how profound I was,

It is a profound scandal that not a single African leader has publicly objected to this travesty.

It is a profound change in the way that a PC deals with how data comes in.

James was a role model for all of us. He was a fair man, a benevolent man and had a profound love for people,

Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Over There ... the most profound experience for me as an actor ever. This show is so about what these guys are going through and what their families are going through while they're fighting. I can't tell you how many letters I've gotten from military families saying things like, 'At least someone is telling our story.' Some of these soldiers feel a little bit forgotten, and I had one Marine write to say, 'If it takes a TV show to make people a little more aware, then so be it.'

Our goal is to do everything practical to make Broadwater the best possible solution to meet this region's growing energy needs. We understand that no major energy project will be embraced by everyone when first introduced, but we are confident that the facts and extensive analysis presented in this filing will demonstrate to all that Broadwater will be safe, reliable, and environmentally sound energy supply source, as well as one with a profound impact on the regional natural gas prices faced by rate payers.

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.

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.

Or if you really love stock car racing, but hate being surrounded by drunken rowdies, you can go with a busload of your church friends. I wouldn't say that there are fewer rules in most of these churches. Most of them really expect people to get involved in ways that can have a profound impact on their lives. It's just that there are so many paths into involvement that a smaller church just can't match.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

NATO and Russia have an extremely profound disagreement on the subject of the use of force (by NATO in Yugoslavia),

My work has been turning toward the ocean for a long time. A number of my pieces speak to my deep and profound connection with the ocean.

My meeting with Judge Roberts today only furthered my high opinion of him and my confidence in his ability to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court, ... This is a man of high moral character and sound legal judgment, who has a profound respect for the Constitution and the role he is ready to assume.

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

I think he'll have a very profound legacy. He has nudged the court to the right.

I think the thing people have to realize is that digital technology is changing the home in a profound way.

John was a brilliant playwright, a tireless advocate for the disabled, a profound thinker, and a warm and generous friend. His disability gave him a powerful understanding of how it requires a community to make us fully human.

Just because the road looks tough up ahead doesn't mean you can give up. He's always been that way as a coach, but I think the struggles we had with my sister's health just gave him more resolve than ever. That had such a profound effect on my father. He saw the fight in my sister and the faith everyone had. It showed him the power of positive thinking.

We've tried to apply that lesson all year. It's a very profound game for these young men because we've talked about it all year and we've talked about it as a group. It's the application of the lesson that becomes the important part.

Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.

I would like to express our profound sorrow to Your Excellency and ... the people of Nepal on the demise of Their Majesties,

Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy,

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.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

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.

We are awed by their sacrifice and their bravery, and we want them and their families to know that they have the profound respect and gratitude of every American,

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.

We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation.

We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.

Today, the most profound thing to me is the fact that a 14-year-old in or Bangalore or the Soviet Union or has all the information, all the tools, all the software easily available to apply knowledge however they want. That is why I am sure the next Napster is going to come out of left field.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Today's reckless allegation by Senator Kerry that the president is overemphasizing the threat of terror demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the global war on terror and the threat facing America and the world,

Under the circumstances, it was a profound effort. I thought our pick-and-roll defense was horrendous, we have to continue to work on that. We got off to a good start.

The problem keeps getting worse, ... We've seen virtually a doubling in the number of obese persons over the past two decades, and this has profound health implications.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Wal-Mart's new commitments to increase efficiency and reduce pollution and waste are important first steps for a company that has such a profound impact on our environment. More companies should take these positive steps towards safer and healthier communities.

Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the mystery of balance. Far from being simply the absence of disease, health is a dynamic and harmonious equilibrium of all the elements and forces making up and surrounding a human being.

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.

Today, science's most profound questions address some of the largest phenomena in the cosmos and some of the smallest. We may never fully answer some of these questions, but we'll advance our knowledge and society in the process of trying,

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

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.

Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.

Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

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.

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

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.

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.

War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly poor, or disadvantaged humans, for nothing but the greed of the few. Only we the people can make war obsolete by not participating in the profound crimes of the profiteers and other war mongers.

In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.

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One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

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.

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.