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- The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it. — Jerry Mander
- We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
- Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty
- When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling… — Gerald May
- I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens
- Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. — Rose Macaulay
- Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument… — Emma Goldman
- Slavery is a long slow process of dulling. — Octavia Butler
- Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice… — Thomas Willis
- It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as… — Grantly Dick-Read
- As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived… — Keith Johnstone
- Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high… — Terence McKenna