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Letter "D" » deaf
«Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.»
«Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.»
Author: John Berger
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Painter)
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Keywords:
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«Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years.»
«We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.»
Author: Herman Melville
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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ten thousand,
till we
«Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?»
«You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand»