Blind Quotes
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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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Those eyes!' ... I've heard that my whole life. I'm actually quite blind. I wear contacts.
Elijah Wood
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
William Penn
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The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
Helen Keller
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Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
Boyd K. Packer
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I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.
Cathy O'Neil
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Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...
William Golding
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Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
Colleen McCullough
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As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.
Sophocles
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If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
William Blum
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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.
Sandra Cisneros
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And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.
William Shakespeare
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We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
Herb Kohl
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What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.
Kathleen Clark
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The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
Helen Keller
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They zealots would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
Moliere
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.
William O. Douglas
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There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon, which was one of my favorites. I don't know, just seemed like everybody I heard could play better than me.
B. B. King
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When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
Sophocles
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They say love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.
Neil Strauss
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We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access.
William Bratton
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Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.
William Tapley Bennett Jr.