Quotes 101 till 120 of 142.
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The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it.
Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119 -
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
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The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
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The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
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There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
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There is none so blind as they that won't see.
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There is only one way in the world to be distinguished Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
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There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.
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There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind.
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
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Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
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Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
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