Quotes with blind

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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alexander Pope But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Hood But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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  • Dan Cruickshank 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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  • John Updike 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.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bob Ney 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.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Barry Malzberg 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.
    Beyond Apollo Ch. 60
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  • Lewis Mumford 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.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht 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
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Sir William Osler Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Olympia Brown 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.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy 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)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Hey, mama, what have I said and done? You treat me like my trouble has just begun.
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  • Vachel Lindsay 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.
    Vachel Lindsay
    American poet (1879 - 1931)
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  • Christina Rossetti I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Ben Jonson 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.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Socrates I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bart Chilton I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
    Bart Chilton
    American civil servant, consultant and author (1960 - 2019)
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