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.
Federica Montseny
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
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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.
Ralph Ellison
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
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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.
Carl Karcher
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
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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.
Iain McGilchrist
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Pasquier Quesnel
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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.
Dan Wakefield
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But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant
Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
Damian Loeb
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?
George Steinbrenner
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Okay... That's still blind-making.
Scott Westerfeld
