Ernst Mach

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Austrian Physicist

Frank Herbert

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

American Writer

Jorja Fox

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

American Actress

I. King Jordan

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

American Educator

Horace Walpole

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

English Author

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Ken Loach

People who are deaf or hard of hearing need all the support we can give them.

English Director

Unknown

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Nyle DiMarco

I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.

American Actor

Millicent Simmonds

I'm happy being deaf. I'm happy with my life and my family.

Recognize 'deaf' can be identity for some, with pride in Deaf culture.

Cultural Sensitivity

Being deaf is not seen as a condition to 'fix' by many deaf individuals.

Not a Condition

'Deaf' with a capital D refers to the culture; lowercase 'deaf' refers to the hearing loss.

Capitalization

Used to show ignorance on purpose, not the inability to hear.

Metaphorical Use

Highlights a stubborn refusal to listen, beyond just not hearing.

Strong Refusal

This sense often has a negative connotation, implying willful ignorance.

Negative Connotation

Emphasizes the collective identity and solidarity among people who are deaf.

Community Unity

Use 'deaf' respectfully when referring to individuals, not as a label.

Inclusive Language

Shows frustration when someone's message is completely disregarded.

Expressive Idiom

Indicates the speaker's feelings of being ignored or unimportant.

Emotional Impact

 for people who are deaf. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille. It's just not going to happen. I really want to live in a world where disability is not the exception, but the norm.

I'm not your inspiration,...

 performers like we're deaf salons work in women's prisons helping women prisoners articulate the pain of incarceration while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs do you find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more and indeed I

The true power of the...

 when fox cubs are born they are deaf blind and completely reliant on their mothers for everything so without a mother their care falls into the hands of the team when cubs first come into the world they have short black fur which they will begin to molt around

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 when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease. So bats are also important for our health, to enable us to better understand how our genome functions.

Emma Teeling: The secret...

 Instead, our brains are sampling just a little bit of the world. Now, across the animal kingdom, different animals pick up on different parts of reality. So in the blind and deaf world of the tick,

Can we create new senses...

 of the doctors said that there was an 80% chance she would either die or develop serious disabilities everything from blindness to paralysis to ventilator deafness trouble palsy intestinal

Born 4 Months Early,...

 These pups were born deaf and blind, but now their senses are developing and they're starting to explore the world around them. I might get the pups to come and investigate it.

Up Close and Personal...

 I was born deaf, and I was taught to believe that sound wasn't a part of my life. And I believed it to be true. Yet, I realize now that that wasn't the case at all.

The enchanting music of...

 life she said I found joy she was deaf dumb blind and brilliant that's all of us that's each and every one of us the true meaning of the term genie in the

Stop defining yourself...

 I am deaf but my world is a Huey one I read I on the pitch well not the auditory the world deep meeting implies

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