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• People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

  George Roy Hill

  Movie, Inspiring, People

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• Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Sight, Giving

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• If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.

  Ivan Stang

  Education, Reality, House

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• Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Data, Thought Provoking, Marketing

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• Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.

  Percy Cerutty

  School, Home, Training

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• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Power, Dust

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

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• Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

  Richard Dawkins

  Survival, Evolution, Economics

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• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

  Mother Teresa

  Rights, Government, Abortion

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• Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Love, Eye, Failing

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• Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

  William Blake

  Eye, Want, Mystery

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• Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

  Daniel Fried

  Drunk, Alcohol, Firsts

  "Old Divides Plague Bosnia" by Christine Spolar, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

  Ron Paul

  Loyalty, Running, Real

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Hearing, Figures, Grotesque

  Flannery O'Connor (2012). “Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons”, p.117, Fantagraphics Books

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• We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

  T Bone Burnett

  Age, Flash, Lit

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• For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Character, Sacrifice

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume II, Chapter 5 - Philosophy and Organization, 1926.

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• It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

  Emily Saliers

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faith, Drama, Book

  "The World's First Love".

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• Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Song, Inspiration

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.84, Ignatius Press

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• Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grief, Good Day, Grieving

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• Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.

  Jacques Chirac

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Mean, Air

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, War, America

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, www.informationclearinghouse.info. April 30, 1967.

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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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Reality, People

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• The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Thinking, Winning, Unhappy

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• If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Lying, Years

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