We believe everything is possible and if you don't have it all, from the perfect body to profound wealth, the fault is yours.
The profound wealth of knowledge that had been carried forward over thousands of years never ceased to amaze me.
It may well be that hunger pangs drove people into the streets this year after decades of high unemployment, government corruption, and profound wealth inequality but what's helped fan the flames of uprising across borders is something to which we all can relate: a hunger for self determination.
The government has always leveraged its profound oil wealth to keep a lid on these problems and prevent them from manifesting into more widespread social unrest, and, for the most part, that effort has been successful, achieved via a series of subsidies covering essential goods and services, such as gas, food and medical care.
The prices also show a profound shift in wealth in the US.
"It seems that by organizing on workplace issues, you might one day see a profound redistribution of wealth and power in this country that could be paramount," said Michael Wishnie, the supervising professor on workplace issues.
In both countries, people who are infuriated by profound gaps in wealth and opportunity have pinned their hopes on nationalist, nostalgic leaders, who encourage them to visualize threats from the outside world.
My strong suspicion is that the real power brokers, people like the Koch Brothers, among many other wealthy seekers of political influence, are funding candidates and Super PACS that promote faith-full messages that divert our attention away from perhaps the most profound transfer of wealth in American history.
So, this profound new skew in wealth has meant, in effect, a significant transfer of wealth up the income ladder.
"On the whole" said the novelist, "I came away from London with a profound admiration of its wealth, grandeur, and immensity.
That is surely a crime, if true, but Mubarak is guilty of a much bigger, more profound, theft: all the wealth Egypt did not generate these past 30 years because of the poverty of his vision and the incompetence of his cronies.
