Blind Quotes - Page 11

• Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Agency, Principles

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.97, American Foundation for the Blind

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• They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

  Charles Ghigna

  Love Is, Young Love, Use

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• The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.

  Judith Warner

  Retirement, Writing, School

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• True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Distance, Believe, Humility

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• Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

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• I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Hurt, Jobs, School

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• For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Despair, Age

  David Hume (1999). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59, Open Court

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• American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity on their leaders with respect to accountability for crimes against humanity.

  Richard A. Falk

  Rights, Israel, Leader

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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

  Player, People, Young

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things.

  Gerald McRaney

  People, Guy, Physicians

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

  Betty Dodson

  College, Luck, Sorority

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It’s like the song “Amazing Grace”: I was blind and now I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Song, Pain, Emotional

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

  Arthur Bradford

  School, Texas, Stories

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

  Garth Greenwell

  People, Invisible, Seems

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Love is blind, definitely. You never know someone truly or properly, that's what I've discovered.

  Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

  Love Is, Love Is Blind, Knows

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• The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat from my diet. Also, like most meat eaters, I was blind to the horrible ways animals are treated.

  Andy Lally

  Animal, Choices, Meat

  Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.

  Herieth Paul

  Teacher, Children, Moving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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

  Order, Law, Effort

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.

  Reed Mullin

  Good Friend, Rock And Roll, Feet

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I really enjoyed playing that Blind stuff because it's a little more mathy and metal and as far as drumming goes, it's a bit more fun.

  Reed Mullin

  Fun, Drumming, Littles

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.

  Reed Mullin

  Albums, Rhythm, Enjoyed

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to subjects solely in virtue of their having had those experiences themselves. Is there a way of thinking about seeing something red, say, that you get from having had those experiences, and so isn't available to a blind person?

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Issues, Red

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

  William Fitzsimmons

  People, Parent, Special

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• The warmongers in the United States Congress are not aware of, or they're blind to the fact that what they are doing will bring about the type of war that will end America completely as a power in the world.

  Louis Farrakhan

  War, America, United States

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that there were lots of questions that constantly kept arising about how much choices I actually could have.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Choices, Facts

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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