`` How can you tell an insane man to reason or a blind man to see ''??

How far could it be, Watson thought bleakly, how far can a blind man crawl??

He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

The new birth is necessary because the natural man is spiritually dead and blind.

A sighted man finds himself in a country that has been isolated from the rest of the world for centuries, wherein all the inhabitants are blind even as their ancestors had been.

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, a blind man, leaving his twin children Leto and Ghanima in the care of the Fremen, while his sister Alia rules the universe as regent.

The clear implication is that to bare one's throat would be tantamount to suicide ( which Jewish law forbids ) and it would also be considered helping a murderer kill someone and thus would " place an obstacle in front of a blind man " ( i. e., makes it easier for another person to falter in their ways ).

He further demonstrated the reason for the inclusion of the Greek text when defending his work: " But one thing the facts cry out, and it can be clear, as they say, even to a blind man, that often through the translator ’ s clumsiness or inattention the Greek has been wrongly rendered ; often the true and genuine reading has been corrupted by ignorant scribes, which we see happen every day, or altered by scribes who are half-taught and half-asleep.

He is credited with coining the adage, " In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king ".

* Jesus lays his hands on a blind man twice in curing him: ; cf.

Galilee is also cited as the place where Jesus cured a blind man.

Almost blind, and having lived in England for almost fifty years, he died a respected and rich man.

This led to many tales that he was a hostage or a blind man.

Jesus healing a blind man in Jericho, El Greco

Voight next appeared in a cameo role in Oliver Stone's U Turn, portraying a blind man.

There they proceeded to mock the blind man, prompting Wermund to challenge their king to a duel — but the king stated that he would not fight a blind man.

Pippa is slightly dim-witted, for example believing Victor had murdered an elderly blind man simply because the victim had been found clutching a double-one domino in his hand, and Victor had two pimples on his nose.

Other characters that had to incur the wrath of Punch varied depending on the punchman, but the most common were the foreigner, the blind man, the publican, the constable, and the devil, however the most interesting and developed relationship continued to be that of Punch and Judy themselves ( Crone 1058 ).

The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast ( 1904 ), which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table.

In a casino setting, lammers are also used to indicate which variant is being used, whose turn it is to pay the blind etc .., and lammers are also a name for " chips " awarded in satellite tournaments as buy-in chips to larger tournaments.

Mainly through John Gough, a blind philosopher and polymath to whose informal instruction he owed much of his scientific knowledge, Dalton was appointed teacher of mathematics and natural philosophy at the " New College " in Manchester, a dissenting academy.

Many of the corporate raiders of the 1980s were onetime clients of Michael Milken, whose investment banking firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert helped raise blind pools of capital which corporate raiders could use to make legitimate attempts to take over companies and provide high-yield debt financing of the buyouts.

" Searchlight " is a very short science fiction story by Robert A. Heinlein about a little blind girl whose spaceship crashes on the Moon.

It is the story of " Noisy " Rhysling, the blind space-going songwriter whose poetic skills rival Rudyard Kipling's.

And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time ; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods — the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep.

< p > Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows!

Conversely, citizens may find themselves ineligible because they do not currently reside within the United States ; exceptions apply for children of military parent ( s ) who were born overseas, were disabled or became blind overseas, or first applied for benefits overseas and for students studying abroad who were eligible for SSI in the month prior to leaving the US, whose absence will be for less than 1 year, and who are studying to enhance their ability to perform substantial gainful activity, sponsored by an educational institution in the US, and would not be available to the individual in the US.

Many of the corporate raiders were onetime clients of Michael Milken, whose investment banking firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert helped raise blind pools of capital with which corporate raiders could make a legitimate attempt to take over a company and provided high-yield debt (" junk bonds ") financing of the buyouts.

The last major reference in Lovecraft's fiction to Azathoth was in 1935's " The Haunter of the Dark ", which tells of " the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws.

Zeus, the tyrannical king of the gods, decided to destroy them, but Prometheus, a Titan whose name meant " forethought ," out of his " philanthropos tropos " or " humanity-loving character " gave them two empowering, life-enhancing, gifts: fire, symbolizing all knowledge, skills, technology, arts, and science ; and " blind hope " or optimism.

" Old Dan " made a big fortune -- he told me once four hundred thousand dollars -- out of his alley and the surrounding tenements, only to grow blind himself in extreme old age, sharing in the end the chief hardship of the wretched beings whose lot he had stubbornly refused to better that he might increase his wealth.

Cesi envisioned a program of free experiment that was respectful of tradition yet unfettered by blind obedience to any authority, even that of Aristotle and Ptolemy whose theories the new science was calling into question.

Turlough O ' Carolan, also known as Turlough Carolan, (; ) ( 167025 March 1738 ) was a blind early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition.

The elaborate ornamentation of the exterior consists of pilaster-strips, a broad frieze of two plain string-courses between which is a blind arcade of round-headed arches whose short vertical pilasters have trapezoidal capitals and bases, while on the eastern gable and the corners adjacent there is a series of mouldings as vertical triple semi-cylinders.

“ O Jabir, you will have a long life, and although you will go blind, but you will meet the 5th in line of my descendants whose name will be my name, who will walk like me and who will be the 5th Imam of the time.

Wally, naturally, was the first one whose helmet went off, and as Catbert was going over what he was thinking about, he went metaphorically " blind " over one of his thoughts, and possibly had the same thought as the Pointy-haired boss (" I was happier not knowing.

There once was a beautiful blind woman named Oman who fell in love with a man whose job it was to protect the island ( most likely a samurai of higher social class ).

For most of Japan ’ s recorded history, music along with narrative performance have been frequent professions for the blind, whose importance in most other major genres is also unavoidable, save for court and theatre music, from the thirteenth century until the nineteenth.

Her comments about Arthur ’ s sexual tastes, particularly his wish for his wife to move around the house without wearing her knickers, lead the police to make a connection with the murder of the blind girl whose undergarment had been removed.

Frequently the blind or deaf speak of a compensating effect, whereby their touch or smell become more acute, changing the ways they perceive and reason about the world ; especially telling examples are found in the cases of ' wild children ,' whose early childhoods were spent in abusive, neglected or non-human environments, both intensifying and minimizing perceptual abilities ( Classen 1991 ).

One of her most memorable moments on screen came in 1992's Scent of a Woman, when she danced a tango with Al Pacino, whose character was blind.

She established the institute for the blind in Saint Petersburg, and supported the career of the blind musician Charlotta Seuerling, whose mother she saved from ruin.