Blind Quotes
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[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
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I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.
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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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Is he legally blind? He's the last person on earth who deserves any sympathy because people like him had no sympathy for the people they were guarding.
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I don't go walking into things blind.
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I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
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After that he began to talk excitedly about the plays of Beckett: Ah, how he liked those guys buried in the ground up to their necks; and how beautiful the statement was about the fire that the present kindles inside you; and, even though among the thousand evocative things that Maddy and Dan Rooney said he had had a hard time picking out the precise point cited by Lila, well, the concept that life is felt more when you are blind, deaf, mute, and maybe without taste or touch was objectively interesting in itself.
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An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
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Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action
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We are blind to each other's humanity.
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Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
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I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
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Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart...
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When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.
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In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
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You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
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Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
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They say love is blind, which makes me braille.
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If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
