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• Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.

  David A. Bednar

  Strong, Healing, Sick

  "That We Might “Not … Shrink” (D&C 19:18)". www.lds.org. March 3, 2013.

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• When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.

  Debi Mazar

  Kids, Years, House

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• The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.

  Garrison Keillor

  Christian, Party, Golf

  "We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore", These Times, August 26, 2004.

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• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Champion

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• Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Self, Dwelling

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• We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Long, People, Trying

  Brandon Sanderson (2013). “Steelheart”, p.152, Delacorte Press

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• The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to "see."

  Hubertus Strughold

  Knowledge, Science, Technology

  "From Outer Space - Advances For Medicine on Earth" by Hubertus Strughold, contributed in "Space, Its Impact on Man and Society" by Lillian Levy, (p. 117), 1965.

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• Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

  Bob Dylan

  Bells, Blind, Explanation

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• Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Kindness, Media

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

  James Nachtwey

  Nerves, Ears, Half

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• Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
  Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
  It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

  John Ford

  Life, Running, Heart

  John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.63

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• Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

  John Heywood

  Knowledge, Blind, Obstinacy

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• To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.

  William Nicholson

  Dream, Laughter, Pain

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• I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

  Jorja Fox

  Rocks, Play, Band

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Voice, Leader, Risk

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• I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.

  Paula Fox

  Writing, Doctors, Voice

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• I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.

  Terry Rossio

  Writing, Italian, Design

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• I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mute

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.

  Ron Rash

  Atrocities, Looks, Hearing

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• Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.

  Julian Simon

  Moving, Past, Hands

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• My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.

  Les Miles

  Mom, Brother, Home

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• I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

  Flannery O'Connor

  People, Dumb, Needs

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• The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Thinking, Israel, Talking

  "The One-state reality" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2014.

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• The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Thinking, Quality

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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• We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Stupidity, World

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