Quotes 21 till 40 of 142.
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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
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By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
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Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
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Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.
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For the task assigned them
Men aren't smart enough or sly
Any rogue can blind them
With a clever lie.The Threepenny Opera Polly Peachum, in The Song of the Futility of All -
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.Valentine, from Mean Time (1993) -
Hey, mama, what have I said and done? You treat me like my trouble has just begun.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That she,
Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
And cast my love behind.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio IX, My Picture Left in Scotland, lines 1-5.
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