Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf."
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Deaf
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J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry."
Heraclitus
Philosopher
"Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent.""
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."
Milan Kundera
Writer
"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
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"Ring the bells for the blind and deaf."
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"I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I."
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"The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends."
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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."
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"The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment."
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"I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others."
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"Deaf rage that hears no leader."
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"Passion is born deaf and dumb."
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"The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice."
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"Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness."
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"I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf."
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