Learned by Reading
In Wikipedia:
Mr Rumsfeld’s statement relating to the increasingly unstable situation in post – invasion Afghanistan was widely viewed as elusive and indicative of arrogance, whilst at the same time reflecting a profound, almost philosophical truth.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It’s the most astounding thing in the world to wrap my mind around…? isn’t it wonderful? how? such a simple, fundamental truth can be so incredibly profound and mysterious at the very same time?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Now my friends will remain nameless for their safety sake, but the truth they spoke was profound and true.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Mind is a monkey this, the truth profound.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Doctorow reminds us of the profound truth: People who use technology to control and enslave others are always and everywhere, by definition, stupid and cowardly.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I am only passionately curious’ ’ – Albert Einstein “It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe’ ’ – Barry Lopez “Genius is 1 % inspiration & 99 % perspiration’ ’ – Thomas Alva Edison “The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines’ ’ – Joseph Conrad “The great successful men of the world have used their imagination they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building’ ’ – Robert Collier “Creation is a drug I can *n’t do without’ ’ – Cecil B. De Mille “I never use a score when conducting my orchestra…
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(. .)))
(. .)))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Doctorow reminds us of the profound truth: People who use technology to control and enslave others are always and everywhere, by definition, stupid and cowardly.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
That in every fantasy, in every fake representation of reality, there is a truly profound truth.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
As I grow older, I realize more and more the profound truth of the following scripture: Proverbs 20:24 (NLT) How can we understand the road we travel?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It is packed with profound scriptural truth to help you’ ’ preach the gospel to yourself’ ’.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
These judgements have often been misunderstood, but the truth in them is profound and goes near to the heart of things.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He called it “Scientology’ ’. Scientology is a confused concoction of crackpot, dangerously applied psychotherapy, oversimplified, idiotic and inapplicable rules and ideas and science – fiction drivel that is presented to its members (at the’ ‘advanced’’ levels) as profound spiritual truth.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The first light brush of their mouths was a truth more profound than any words.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In the civic arena, they express the profound spiritual truth that all of us are connected and in every heart beats the same sacred rhythm: holy, holy, holy.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The thrill is in the con game, being made to care about people who don’t even exist, but when this trick turns out to have resonance – when the lie serves up a profound truth – then the experience of reading is more than a mere thrill.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when we finally touch, for however briefly, the gold-like essence of human life it becomes a profound and irresistible truth that permanently re – orients our life and our vision of health.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
One of the profound truth that I stumbled upon was the closing phrase “Do you believe?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Doctorow reminds us of the profound truth: People who use technology to control and enslave others are always and everywhere, by definition, stupid and cowardly.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
While you don’t want to make these chapters watertight compartments, there is a profound truth here that good biblical teaching will lead to deeper faith that will itself lead to holiness of life.
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(. .)))
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