Word: profound
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...illusion of intelligence we produce through them is undeserved if we are ignorant of their application. Yet countless sections and lectures focus on defining the terms of this elite language rather than applying them to the issues of today’s world. In my eyes, it shows a profound lack of ambition to study a single word when the vast and tangible world is open to your probing...
...Somehow, this didn’t seem like quite the quality of thought anyone had in mind. After about a minute of considering this, I became bored and discontented. I tried googling “Profound Things to Think About,” but without any actual knowledge to draw upon, I found it challenging to come up with a solution to the budget crisis on short notice...
...turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps. With Wikipedia and Google, our generation is poor in knowledge, specialized or otherwise. While this would seem to be a weight off our minds, it also makes our thinking less profound. Unlike prior generations, who wiled away the hours between going uphill both ways to school in massive hailstorms by memorizing the works of great authors, we devote our time to YouTube and Facebook, confident that the real information is all there somewhere should we ever need it. Besides the fact that agreeing to disagree long since went...
...Washington insiders. Such critics claim that, by hearkening back to people who held positions in the Bush and Clinton administrations, Obama is abandoning his entire platform of change. What this argument fails to address, however, is that even those experienced politicians whose names may be familiar can still produce profound change—whether it be through the generation of new ideas, or merely that existing ideas are received by fresh ears. We strongly believe that one of Obama’s strengths is that he surrounds himself with an intelligent, experienced, and diverse set of advisers. For example, Obama?...
...long life of the Dalai Lama is, for Tibetans, a profound blessing. But while they might pray to postpone the moment of his passing, the leaders of the Tibetan community are no longer shy about preparing...