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I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

It is impossible to imagine that humanity has suddenly become blind and has really lost the consciousness of a mortal danger. (Quote by - Wladyslaw Anders)

And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. (Quote by - Bible)

Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)

In many, many places audio books are still unexploited. In a lot of southern European countries, people still think of audio books as being only for blind people. We need to change that attitude. (Quote by - Barry Clark)

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me. (Quote by - Harry Kemp)

Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress. (Quote by - Sierra Club Slogan)

Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge. (Quote by - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin)

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us. But I don't see most of them here with us. They know we exist when they need to be elected, but after the election they become blind and deaf when it comes to our problems. .. We demand the government to use its power, as one of the greatest nations in the world, to end police brutality, to end racial profiling. (Quote by - Abner Louima)

I consider him to be one of the 21st-century prophets, along with people like Bill Gates, who is at the forefront of bringing real medical relief to the world's poor. We seek to model Jesus in Matthew 11:5, where he said, 'The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk.' We seek to help those afflicted with crippling diseases, like Rick Warren is doing with his AIDS project. The church must act. (Quote by - Don Stephens)

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)

The Constitution is both color blind and color conscious. To avoid conflict with the equal protection clause, a classification that denies a benefit, causes harm, or imposes a burden must not be based on race. In that sense the Constitution is color blind. (Quote by - John Minor Wisdom)

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of day. (Quote by - John Milton)

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?. (Quote by - Will Harvey)

Empty flattering will pave my way, As I am heading for the kill, Caressing your mind with greasy words, will blind you for long enough. (Quote by - Andreas Johansson)

Every blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. It just so happens that two hit me on the head tonight. (Quote by - Davis Drewiske)

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality..I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. (Quote by - Anais Nin)

When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward. (Quote by - Swedish Proverb)

We just don't worry about it too much, .. It's like the old adage, 'you try to watch the stock market every day and you go blind.'. (Quote by - David Frail)

We already had gangs, and the violence level was increasing already. Then you add to that this factor of gangs from New Orleans. They're walking in blind, but looking to make money and establish territory, and their level of violence is really high. (Quote by - Charles Rotramel)

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

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