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• These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

  John Milton

  Stars, Eye, Heart

  John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”, p.36

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• In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Real, Illiterate Person, People

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

  John Milton

  Grief, Loss, Dark

  John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359

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• With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

  Richard Ney

  Real, Eye, Race

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

  Mother Jones

  People, Blind, Shortcomings

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• There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

  Otto Schily

  Iraq, Terrorist Groups, Problem

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• love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Men, Light

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• If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Evil, Terrible

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  Adam Michnik

  Powerful, Blind, Deaf

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• He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

  Kit Williams

  Later In Life, Calling, Madness

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• Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?

  David Hume

  Determination, Practice, Light

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4014, Delphi Classics

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• Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Hunger And Thirst, Ancient

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• The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Funny, Sarcastic, Atheist

  River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)

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• This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

  Michael Medved

  Spiritual, Challenges, Hollywood

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Land, Civilization

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!

  Colley Cibber

  Blessing, Boys, Light

  Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”

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• In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Country, Kings, Government

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

  Judd Nelson

  Eye, Eggs, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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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.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mom, Baby, People

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

  Democritus

  Men, Giving, Useless

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

  Ralph Ellison

  Love, Beauty, Dream

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.44, Vintage

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• He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

  William Shakespeare

  Treasure, Forget, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

  Ben Harper

  Easter, Hate, Fall

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