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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

  William J. Brennan

  Aggravation, Flow, Disease

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• And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Eight, Seven Months, Seven Days

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Writing, Golf, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

  Michael Medved

  Spiritual, Challenges, Hollywood

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• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

  Ray Kroc

  Important, Guarantees, Absence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

  Golda Meir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Thinking, Government

  "Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists". Book by Anne Chisholm, 1972.

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• Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

  Erwin Rommel

  Fighting, Air, Enemy

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• I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Break Up, Breakup, Golf

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• You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

  Gordie Howe

  Pain, Attitude, Hockey

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• Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

  Gil Gerard

  Couple, Golf, Years

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• I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

  Major Taylor

  Sympathy, Knowing, Feelings

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head

  Bethany Hamilton

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• Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

  Stella Young

  Thinking, Knowing, Doe

  ""I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much"". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April 2014.

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• There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Inspirational, Society, Inability

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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• Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

  Paul Harvey

  Writing, Golf, Games

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• Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

  Alan Watts

  Intellectual, Inability, Accepting

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

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• The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Decay, Pieces

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.21, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

  Jodi Picoult

  Giving, Extras, Dose

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Children, Doctors

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.16, Penguin

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• Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Jew

  "Sammy Davis Jr. Kept His Cool in a Less-Tolerant Era" by Carmel Dagan, variety.com. December 8, 2015.

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• You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Trying, Looks, Faces

  "Audrey Hepburn" by Barry Paris, (p. 108), 2002.

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• He does not see as i have that you have given him your heart, but he is male. We will cut him some slack for that handicap, yes?

  Katie MacAlister

  Heart, Cutting, Males

  Katie Macalister (2008). “Up In Smoke: A Novel of the Silver Dragons”, p.115, Penguin

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