On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

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About Tom Lehrer

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Thomas Andrew Lehrer ( ; April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025) was an American musician and mathematician. He recorded pithy, humorous, and often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs parodied popular musical forms, often with original melodies.

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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

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I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

—Adrienne E. Gusoff

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Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

—Antonio Porchia

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It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

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Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

—Rabbi Julius Gordon

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The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time.

—Laurens Van der Post

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