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A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. -- William Dunbar
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped. -- Kenzaburo Oe
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. -- Henri Nouwen
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. -- Jack Black
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. -- Scott Adams
I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all. -- Aimee Mullins
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals. -- Gordon W. Allport
I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working. -- Alphonso Jackson
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. -- Leslie Fiedler
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. -- Edgard Varese
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. -- Betty Friedan
A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs. -- Kieran Culkin
We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,' but there's all kinds of stuff I can do. -- Marlee Matlin
One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours. -- Alex Kingston
I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing. -- David Henry Hwang
They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments. -- Anna Lee
Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind. -- DeForest Soaries
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. -- Rand Paul
I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.' -- Aimee Mullins
We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media. -- Aloe Blacc
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
I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar. -- Kesha
You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. -- Scott Adams
I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well. -- Patrick Stewart
I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parking spaces. I don't like to step on the blue lines. I always step over them. I don't know what the deal is. I don't know if it's a fear of injury, or a disrespectful thing, or if I just don't want to think about something like that happening. -- Chantal Sutherland
My ambition is handicapped by laziness -- Charles Bukowski
Only the poor are handicapped by honor. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence. -- Ken Danby
I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped. -- Jean-Louis Gassee
A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped. -- Irving Langmuir
I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands. -- Bess Truman
Women are like parking spots, the best ones are handicapped. -- Zach Braff
Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces. -- Denis Leary
Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker. -- Heather Whitestone
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove. -- Steig Larsson
I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped. -- Charlotte Rampling
Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense. -- Chris Rock
Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped. -- Clea Duvall
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. -- J. Edgar Hoover
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces. -- Dave Grohl
My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility. -- Kelly Reilly
Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but okay to go the bathroom in a handicapped stall? -- Jerry Seinfeld
The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology. -- Jim Breithaupt
Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped. -- Nathan McCall
01210 is a pyramid, & worms move like handicapped snakes. My dream belongs in a wheelchair, because I just spilled coffee all over my sleep. -- Jarod Kintz
Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped. -- Andy Adams
There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that... -- J.R. Ward
A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience. -- Aya Kito
I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns. -- Henri Nouwen
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs. -- Thomas M. Disch
Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it. -- Philip Rosedale
Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species. -- Frans de Waal
Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result. -- J. Edwin Orr
Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters... -- Sergei Bongart
Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes. -- Nicholas Winton
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said Deformed Mans Toilet, that kind of thing. -- David Henry Hwang

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