Blind People Quotes - Page 2

• If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Play, People, Blind

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2000.

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• I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you." "I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dog, Eye, Doors

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.271, Hachette UK

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• With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Eye, Light

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• I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

  Desmond Tutu

  Race, Color, Visions Of The Future

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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• Let's take something like antidepressant medications. There's decent science saying it has an effect, but it's shockingly small after you control for penetration of the blind, people knowing that they're getting the active pills versus sugar pills, if you use an active control. It's probably only a few points. But it's a multi, multibillion-dollar industry. And by the way, has huge side effects. 40 percent of the people taking them have significant sexual side effects. And that's just one. A single antidepressant medication can be worth a billion dollars to a company.

  Steven C. Hayes

  People, Blind, Significant

  Source: bigthink.com

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• How do blind people know when they're done wiping their ass?

  Robert Schimmel

  People, Done, Blind

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• I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.

  Sophie Calle

  Istanbul, Sight, People

  "Sophie Calle; For The Last And First Time" by Evelyne Politanoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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• No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

  Richard Curtis

  Profound, People, Likes

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• I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

  Chick Hearn

  Boys, Two, Talking

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