"Slavery is a long slow process of dulling." — Octavia Butler

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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… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
• Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity… — Mark Doty
• When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it… — Gerald May
• I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual… — Christopher Hitchens
• Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes… — Rose Macaulay
• Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work… — Emma Goldman
• Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings… — Thomas Willis
• It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her… — Grantly Dick-Read
• As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world… — Keith Johnstone
• Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an… — Terence McKenna
• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye… — Denis Diderot

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