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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

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.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.