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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

~Barbara Jordan

Topics: Actions All People All Things Condition Consequences Deafness Did Foresee Full Haste Hear Irreversible Made Mistakes Only Our People Raised Temporary Things Voices

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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

~David Hockney

Topics: Actually Clearer Deafness Hear Makes See Somehow Think You

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Blindness Creation Deafness Everyday Experience Familiar Him His Influenced Knows Look Man Never Occurs Plain Regard Senses Things Whole World

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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

~Frank Herbert

Topics: Another Around Cannot Deaf Deafness Fact Hear Lack May Person Possess See Senses Then Think Us We Cannot World You

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