"If one person in a group of ten……" — Rosemary Mahoney
"If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad."
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Rosemary Mahoney
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19 Quotes by Rosemary Mahoney
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Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
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The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
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A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille…
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Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful…
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One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of…
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I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
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As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
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My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she…
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The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in…
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