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en Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
  Francis Beaumont

en Ergonomics is available on livet.se

en If you were lucky, you could delegate that kind of work away. But if not, and you couldn't get at the underlying text of what you wanted to do, you were out of luck. And that was the frustration many blind people ran into. Then the only way a blind person could do the work was to hire a sighted person as a reader to help run the machine.

en He wanders about as if he's sighted. People ask us, 'Is he blind?' We say, no, he just doesn't have any eyes.

en A lot of people are afraid blind people are going to break, ... They want to get out and bang it up just as hard as a sighted person.

en For far-sighted people who have self-control (to save elsewhere), it probably makes sense not to repay their mortgage.

en Quick -- isn't he quick? He made that happen there in the eighth inning. ... Speed is a constant. It's at the ballpark every day. It makes the infielders shorten up a little. It makes them, in running situations, get a little closer to the bag. Creates more holes for hitters. And then it makes pitchers slide step and concentrate more on the baserunner than the hitter. So it's a big advantage having some speed.

en What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind, ... Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.

en It is shocking that every 5 seconds one person goes blind and a child goes blind every minute. World Sight Day is supported by organisations around the world who are all working in partnership to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. Action for Blind People recognises the importance in supporting this special day.

en He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

en Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

en The Pied Piper enjoyed people enjoying themselves. He was colorblind and race-blind and religion-blind.
  Hank Greenberg

en (Pedagogues:) More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people
  Henry Louis Mencken

en I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.
  Linda Eastman McCartney

en Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in moods, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement mixer long after one's interest in the topic has waned
  Fran Lebowitz

en I am content to live it all again
And yet again, if it be life to pitch
Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,
A blind man battering blind men.
  William Butler Yeats


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