Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
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Selfishness is blind.
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I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.
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Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.
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To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
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The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.
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The ball is entirely in his court. We really have no knowledge of where he is with the project, other than what we read in the papers.
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We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.
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If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
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Okay... That's still blind-making.
