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#disability

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #disability




We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.


Jay Weatherill


#anyone #coming #complete #disability #entry

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.


John Forbes Nash, Jr.


#characteristic #disability #entirely #good #health

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.


Robert Sternberg


#child #concrete #consequences #disability #example

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.


Oscar Pistorius


#disability #educate #i #people #sense

An aged monk led me to the infirmary. "He's got the place to himself. Once the other invalids learned there was a dragon coming they miraculously got well! The lame could walk and the blind decided they didn't really need to see. He's a panacea.


Rachel Hartman


#humor #miracles #age

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.


Sarah Palin


#family #special-needs #family

There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability.


Keary Taylor


#death #depression #disability #fear #hurt

When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.


Yvonne Pierre


#disability #down-syndrome #inspirational #unconditional-love #beauty

You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.


Jimmy Carr


#comics #different #disability #disabled #experience

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.


Jennifer M. Granholm


#billion #budget #calls #clear #congress






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