Quotes with deafness

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• The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

  John Cheever
  American writer (1912 - 1982)
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• We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  Barbara Jordan
  American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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• Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• near-sightedness
• consequences
• irreversible
• understand
• temporary
• condition

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