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

~Adam Michnik

Topics: Blind Deaf Likely More Much Outside Powerful Signals You

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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

~Albert Bandura

Topics: Acceptable Against Appeals Conduct Deaf Destructive Ears Ends Fall Justification Made Means Mechanism Moral Most Personally Portraying Powerful Service Socially Violent Why

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Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Acquired Articulate Born Child Consequently Deaf Fact Hearing How Instruction Learns Medium Never

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'Hear My Heart' was constructed with the deaf in mind. I wanted a bass line that felt like a heartbeat. I wanted to be able to touch the speakers and feel a clear sense of rhythm.

~Andy Mineo

Topics: Able Bass Clear Constructed Deaf Feel Felt Hear Heart Heartbeat Like Line Mind Rhythm Sense Speakers Touch Wanted

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I searched YouTube for 'deaf music videos' and watched them with the sound muted. I noticed that though you could understand the words being signed, the sense of rhythm was lost. That's when I had the idea to create a video where you could see the sounds you couldn't hear.

~Andy Mineo

Topics: Being Could Create Deaf Had Hear Idea Lost Music Music Videos Noticed Rhythm See Sense Signed Sound Sounds Them Though Understand Video Videos Watched Where Words You Youtube

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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Bad Deaf Good Indifferent Melancholy Mourn Music Neither Nor Same Same Thing Same Time Thing Those Time Who

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John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Deaf Family Father Garden Glenn Help Home Injuries John Known Mostly Out Over Sold Town War World World War World War I Young

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I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

~Bob Riley

Topics: About Anytime Ask Deaf Done Down Ear Elections Future Here Interests Jobs Our Politics Special Special Interests Stand Thinking Turn Until Waste While You

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We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Afraid Antibiotics Application Bacteria Been Could Create Deaf Easiest Either Help Help People Important Infection Make Mute New People Sick Study Tell Them Think Understand Why I Think

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I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Antibiotics Application Bacteria Could Create Deaf Easiest Either Help Help People Important Make Mute New People Study Tell Them Think Understand Why I Think

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