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• My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

  Rick Hansen

  Perception, Negative, Use

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• Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

  Steve Grand

  Real, Ideas, Progress

  Steve Grand (2003). “Creation: Life and How to Make It”, p.21, Harvard University Press

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• People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.

  Iain Banks

  Running, Teacher, Thinking

  Iain Banks (2008). “The Crow Road”, Macadam Cage Pub

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• A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

  Christopher Paolini

  Negative, Injury, Outlook

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.932, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidence in themselves and happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they do have and of all the opportunities that come their way.

  Benjamin Spock

  Growing Up, Children, Parenting

  "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care". 8th Edition,

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• Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

  Bobby Nichols

  Golf, Great Golf, Golfing

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• My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

  Ronald Reagan

  Golf, Loving Friends, Bob

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• I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Golf

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• You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

  James Lane Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Courage, Fear, Self Esteem

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• I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

  Ella Baker

  Leader, Slavery, Culture

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• If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Religion, Atheism

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• The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.

  Michael Parenti

  Honesty, Hard Work, Compassion

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• A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, World, Tickets

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• When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Jesus, Children, Godly

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• I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

  Jackie Robinson

  Success, Believe, Past

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• The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Rip, Son

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• This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

  Molly Ivins

  Ignorance, Men, He Man

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• There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Growing Up, Boys

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• I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Men, Wife

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.

  Sophia Loren

  Thinking, Ifs

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• Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap.

  Son Lux

  Guitar, Strange Places, Waiting

  "Son Lux Lights Up". Interview with Frank Valish, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2013.

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• Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Mind

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• It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Size, Efficiency, Profit

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