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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Kindness Blind Language See Hear

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

Flower God Darkness People

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Will Us Only Find

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.

Time You World Better

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Life I Am People Impossible

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?

You World Think Person

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Michel de Montaigne

Good Marriage Wife Husband Blind

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Myself Marriage Happy Woman

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Blind Brainy See Will

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

Music Wisdom Understand Nothing

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

People Go Questions Like

I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.

Age High Always Headphones

I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.

People World Excited About

My message to my deaf community is that we can redefine anything however we want. Anything is re-definable only if we believe and work hard for it.

Work Work Hard Believe Community

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

Sad Man Proud Care

Be it terrorists or 'blinded by greed' capitalists or 'deaf and dumb and siloed' officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common good.

Good Special Greed Dumb

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

Eduardo Galeano

Time I Am World Ignorance

Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

Best Heart Trust Matter

'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.

Heart Mind Feel Touch

I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.

Dreams Hope People Inspire

We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.

People Culture Community Own

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

Birds Sometimes Bad Pretend

I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

Motorcycle School High School High

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Robert Anton Wilson

Blind Own Things Dumb

I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.

People Think Things I Think

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

Beauty Me Time World

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