Word: profound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone takes mostly the same classes, the same tests, does the same few marquee extracurriculars. For you, probably, there was only one goal: a top-ranked school. With admission to Harvard, you won this race. But being so good in a two-dimensional world can have a profound affect on your self-image. There was no need to choose what activities you would be involved in, because you could do all of them. No need to decide which offices you wanted to run for--the president, every time. No need, in effect, to decide what you wanted, because you knew...
...drinking. He was a great runner," says Laura. "And when he was able to stop, that gave him a lot of confidence and made him feel better about himself." While Bush was working on these issues, in the summer of 1986, something else happened that would also have a profound impact on him, allowing him to leave Midland with his head up. A corporate savior appeared...
...essential humanity, told with care and flair. Is it possible for a film to resonate in a billion heads at once, hooking adults as intensely as fairy tales once mesmerized kids? Can we have a film that is smart, pure and funny and, just by the way, a little profound...
...accused Graham of intellectualism, profound spirituality or social compassion, but he is free of any association with the Christian right of Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed and all the other advocates of a God whose prime concerns are abolishing the graduated income tax and a woman's right to choose abortion (which Graham also opposes). And there have been no scandals, financial or sexual, to darken Graham's mission. His sincerity, transparent and convincing, cannot be denied. He is an icon essential to a country in which, for two centuries now, religion has been not the opiate but the poetry...
...technological change, Sakharov reminded the world that science is inseparable from conscience. Sakharov believed that science was a force for rationality and, from there, democracy: that in politics as in science, objective truths can be arrived at only through a testing of hypotheses, a democratic consensus "based on a profound study of facts, theories and views, presupposing unprejudiced and open discussion." As a physicist, he believed that physical laws are immutable, applying to all things in nature. As a result, he regarded certain human values--such as liberty and the respect for individual dignity--as inviolable and universal...