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“If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.”

Ifs Needs Different Use Internet Elements Tools Overcoming Blind Commit Range Description Barriers Disability Mail Blindness Deaf Rendering Caption Web Content

Author:Vinton Cerf

“In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.”

Source: Silent Spring

“Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.”

People Needs Matter Names Voice Blind Blind People Blind Person

Author:Jose Saramago

“These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.”

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Author:Jamie Zawinski

“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.”

“Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.”

Needs Use Problem Choices Strong Born Atheism Blind Positive Atheism Guides Like Me Dumb Deaf Deaf And Blind

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.”

Needs Motivation Talent Keys Ambition Blind Driven Crucial Blind Ambition

Author:Lily Cole

“The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.”

Needs Mind Firsts Home Eye Lasts Saws Sight Blind Trade Fortune Rate Seeking Mechanic Stay At Home Coquette

Book:Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

Source: Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

“To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.”

Needs Persons Achieve Towns Blind Unity Carrie Cooperation Small Town Crippled Blind Person

Author:Unita Blackwell

“The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.”

Needs Humor Religious Land Blind Jew Positive Atheism Savior Messiah Unbelief

Book:Listen, America!

Source: Listen, America!

“The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.”

People Needs Young Blind Debt Reform Crush Massive Comprehensive Urgency

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.”

Needs Made Age Poverty Trouble Sick Blind Sickness Goods Needy Lame

Author:John Wycliffe

“How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.”

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.”

“Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Blind Human Needs

Book:The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years

Source: The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years

“To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.”

Needs Giving Facts Use Order Grows Deals Practice Technology Produce Products Skills Opposites Blind Plant Hunger Seeds Arguing Empowering Weed Farms Chemicals Farmers Fertility Gmos

Author:Anna Lappe

“Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.”

Needs Enough Courses Mistake Creative Ego Blind Making Mistakes Keep Going Deaf

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.”

Needs Sometimes Order Blind Privilege

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Lieutenant Governor Paterson - blind, black guy - gets sworn in. First thing he says is, 'By the way, cheated on my wife. Let's just get that out in the open right now.' He didn't need to admit that. He's blind. Could have said it was an accident.”

Way Needs Firsts Said Guy Black Wife Right Now Blind My Wife Accidents Governors Cheated Lieutenants Black Guys Cheated On

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.”

“Global warming is another big area that we need to get on top of. And diseases in Africa, which we're also working on and seeing if we can make a difference on. And there are lots of issues that governments seem to be blind about.”

Ifs Needs Bigs Seems Government Differences Issues Seeing Disease Areas Blind Making A Difference Global Warming

Author:Richard Branson

“Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”

Men Needs Reality Imagination Blind My Imagination Bulbs Blind Man

Author:Tom Waits

“My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”

Men Needs Reality Imagination Blind My Imagination Bulbs Blind Man Sugar Cane

Author:Tom Waits

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

People Needs Long Matter Used Sin Talking Pride Praying One Day Shapes Long Time Blind Salvation Right Time

Book:The Best of Faulkner

Source: The Best of Faulkner

“Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.”

“No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.”

Want Needs Looks May Persons Stills Remember Speak Parent Childhood Adults Blind One Time Rejected Wounded Companionship Womb Time Of Need

Author:Banana Yoshimoto

“I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you." "I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.”

People Knows Needs Wells Use Eye Know How Seeing Happened Doors Dog Blind Opening Werewolf Liz Along For The Ride Blind People Opening Doors

Book:The Reckoning: Number 3 in series

Source: The Reckoning: Number 3 in series

“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”

People Men Needs Hands Past Brain Break Bears Habit Gun Roots Machines Blind Ice Tigers Allegiance Very Deep Machine Guns

Author:Loren Eiseley

“I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.”

Way Want Needs Giving Looks Soul Body Father Common Brain Knowing Worst Acceptance Protect Blind Devotion Common Sense Innocence I Want You Look At Me Trust Me Lifelong Protect Yourself

Author:Anne Stuart

“When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.”

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Author:John Owen

“They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.”

Needs Looks Hands Painting Towns Blind Filled Selling Brown Tonight Pants Tied Restless Rope Circus Riot Sailor Passports Desolation Walkers Trance Squad Parlor Postcards Commissioners

Author:Bob Dylan

“Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.”

Knows Needs Past Form Dangerous Depends Survival Logic Luck Blind Surprise Conservative Chess Conservatism Clinging Unprepared Playing Chess

Author:Frank Herbert

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.”

Needs Beautiful Hurt Memories Break Broken Blind Cruelty Trough

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it”

Knows Needs Failing Flower Fool Garden Blind

Book:Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

“I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.”

Needs Reason Faces Law Faith Universe Sea Pure Blind Endless Reasoning Indifferent Unfeeling Small Life Endless Sea

Author:Dan Simmons

“Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away”

Needs Hurt Break Broken Blind Cruelty

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.”

Life Needs Mind Reason Eye Heard Blind His Eyes Manifold

Book:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.”

Needs Trying Eye Turns Justice Blind Injustice Living My Life Live In The Moment Blind Eyes

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!”

“Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind.”

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Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses”

“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”

Needs Giving Book Silence Speech Ears Sight Blind Censorship Banned Censoring Banned Books Censorship In Books Book Banning Censoring Books Freedom To Read

Author:Stephen Chbosky

“If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.”

“Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.”

Needs Should Real Able Law Justice Deals Honest Color Blind Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.”

Needs Should Feelings Blind Charity Determine Starvation Personal Feelings

Author:Michael Redhill

“Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.”

“Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.”

People Men Needs Believe Eye Christian Half Criticism Ears Praise Blind Christian Inspirational Every Man Deaf Salute Blind Eyes Deaf Ears

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.”

Needs Helping Form Evil Doors Objects Positive Arms Listening Sorrow Goodness Glory Weak Praise Asking Blind Charity Legs Harm Deaf Deities Glory Of God Hurrying Asking For Help Leading The Blind

Author:Muhammad

“Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.”

Needs Soul Eye Picks Blind Mars Her Eyes Crow Flatterer

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.”

Needs Long Light Color Blind Paint Nevertheless Brushes Deaf Tubes Time Of Day

Author:Claude Monet