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• Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

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• I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.

  Bobby Flay

  Jobs, School, Home

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• One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

  Federico Fellini

  Motivational, Mistake, Moving

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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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• Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Greatness, Men, Tests

  Orison Swett Marden (1910). “Getting on”

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• Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.

  Stuart Hill

  Madness, Irrationality, Ifs

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• [Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.

  Jim Butcher

  Dog, Kids, Animal

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1679, Penguin

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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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• That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data and comfort in predicting whether the roll's gonna continue, whether the team is playing well and who the opponent is. But the golf course is the opponent. It changes every round in terms of wind and weather and so forth. And your game is never the same two days in a row. It's almost impossible to handicap and predict.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sports, Team, Golf

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap symbol as my own so I could park in handicap spots. Deformed people should be honored to park so close to me. Meeting a celebrity like me may give them hope in their mistake of a life.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, People, Giving

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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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• 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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• 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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• Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Technology, Men

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

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• I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Roman Numerals, Games

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• Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Two, Different

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• I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

  Jimmy Carter

  Faith, Thinking, Sight

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• Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

  Harry Chapin

  Writing, Kids, Guitar

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Spiritual, Epic, Class

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title

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• It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Girl, Women, Mean

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• Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are we inclined to judge an eternal soul by the appearance of an earthly body? Do we see the beautiful soul of a brother or sister or do we only see that person's earthly tabernacle? Bodies can be distorted by handicap, twisted by injury or worn by age. But if we can learn to see the inner man and woman, we will be seeing as God sees and loving as He loves.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Beautiful, Brother, Attitude

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• Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

  Napoleon Hill

  Humorous, Positive Thinking, Men

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Culture Religion, Capacity To Love

  Jean Vanier (2013). “The Heart of L'Arche: A spirituality for every day”, p.33, SPCK

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