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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. Adam Ferguson
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Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. Blaise Pascal
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Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love. Thomas Fuller
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What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone. Richard Heber
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It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. Robert Green Ingersoll
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For the ''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion. Thomas Carlyle
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You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.
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The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Over the last five years, there's been a reawakening as we look at things like change blindness (a failure to see large changes in a visual scene) and at the fact that consciousness is a construction and may even be an illusion. Now there's a recognition that magicians are doing something very special. Richard Wiseman
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. Will Durant
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Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. Walker Percy
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If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers. Robert Jeffress
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred. Warren Mitchell
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The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel. William Taylor
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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity. Voltaire
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. William Ralph Inge
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And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler. Winston Churchill
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No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. Jacque Fresco