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  • What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?

    Eye   Dark   Age  
    Robert C. Atkins (1972). “Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever”
  • Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

    Eye   Political   Enemy  
  • With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

    Real   Eye   Race  
  • Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression

    Wisdom   Islamic   Eye  
  • Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.

    Jesus   Eye   Men  
  • An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press
  • Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

    Eye   America   Life Is  
  • I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

    War   Eye   Writing  
  • Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.

    Mean   Eye   Deployment  
    David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.
  • We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a test for humanity and moral dignity. Because turning a blind eye to such horrible and shameful crimes means indulging terrorists and aggressors and violating high European values for which Ukrainians are suffering and dying.

    Mean   Eye   Humanity  
  • Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

    Hurt   Real   Healing  
  • Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

    Eye   Ostriches   Fool  
    Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber
  • Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

    Eye   Looks   Blind  
    Song: Life of Mr. Carter, Album: Tha Carter III, 2008
  • 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.

    Christian   Believe   Eye  
  • The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

    Eye   People   Evil  
  • In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

    Teacher   Husband   Party  
  • Blind eyes cannot read.

    Eye   Blind   Blind Eyes  
    "The Pillow Book". Drama, 1996.
  • It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

    Love   Self   Anorexia  
  • Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

    Eye   Meat   Facts  
  • But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

    Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.71, LSU Press
  • We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  • We can't say that we believe in each other's fundamental humanity, and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each other's existence, and the truth of each others' hearts. We must be allies and we must be allies in this business, because to be represented is to be humanized, and as long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

    Believe   Heart   Eye  
    Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.
  • I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

    Eye   Sometimes   Blind  
    1801 Said to Captain Foley during the Battle of Copenhagen, 2 Apr. Nelson disregarded the order of his superior, Admiral Hyde-Parker, to break off action and went on to win the engagement.
  • In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

    Men   Land   Civilization  
    Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan
  • The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

    Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin
  • Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

    Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam
  • When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

    God   Eye   Light  
  • Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

    Children   Eye   Focus  
  • We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.

    Eye   Animal   Ecosystems  
    Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.188, A&C Black
  • If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

    Roger Ebert's review of "Drag Me to Hell", www.rogerebert.com. June 3, 2009.
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