“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi
“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.”
As quoted in Awakening Indians to India (2008), p. 82
Context: If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
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Psalm 58.
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Variant: None so blind as those that will not see.
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Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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“Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah has triumphed—his people are free.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Unsourced in The Philosophy of Mark Twain: The Wit and Wisdom of a Literary Genius (2014) by David Graham
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“I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest