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• At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

  Ernst Toller

  Brother, Men, Realization

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: An Autobiography”

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• Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

  Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

  Love, Friendship, Love Is

  'Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour' (1665) pt. 1

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• Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

  DeForest Soaries

  People, Voting, Machines

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• Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Christian, Wise, Mean

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• Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.

  Daniel Dennett

  Love Is, Giving, Suffering

  Daniel C. Dennett (2006). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.254, Penguin

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• A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the mediaeval mind. It appealed strongly to common human sympathy and pity; it startled also another feeling, that of fear. It frightened men and awed them. It made them feel that man is blind and helpless, the plaything of an inscrutable power, called by the name of Fortune or some other name,-a power which appears to smile on him for a little, and then on a sudden strikes him down in his pride.

  A. C. Bradley

  Pride, Men, Names

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• It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

  David O. McKay

  Eye, Giving, Teach

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• The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.

  Winston Churchill

  Faithful Servants, Realization, Earth

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• The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Color, Moral, Progressive

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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• It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rpgs, Effort, Magic

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• On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love Is, Too Much, Good Things

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• These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Heart, Men

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• I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, Ignorance, Thinking

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is so rich that, far from strengthening the constitution, it disturbs and enfeebles it. Stage beginners are similar to those children totally spoiled by the blind affection of their parents.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Children, Parent

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• If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Dust, Clouds

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

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• If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

  Billy Joel

  Might, Truthfulness, Wells

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• This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

  Susanna Kaysen

  People, Interesting, Insanity

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.41, Vintage

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• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  Sally Phillips

  Kids, Faults, Devoted

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• The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Eye, Law, Eye For An Eye

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• Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

  William Hope Hodgson

  Mind, Impossible

  William Hope Hodgson (2015). “The House on the Borderland: Horror Stories Collections”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.

  Deane Juhan

  Engagement, Problem, Prosperity

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• For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Islands, Leaving

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• The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

  Warsan Shire

  Hurt, Love You, Ego

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• They say love is blind, which makes me braille.

  Behdad Sami

  Love Is, Love Is Blind, Braille

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• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Miracle, Blind Love, Each Day

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