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If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.

Perfect Opportunity Lead Disability
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Scant Minimum People Involvement
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

People Universe Sweat Work
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I think that's where it comes into play, when you are just looking at a document or whatever and you see the word

Play Document Disability Trigger
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Anything Trouble Amazing Else
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

Opportunity Shall Begin Mind
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Weep Mouth Celebrate Pass
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If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.

Universe Creator Whole Life
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

World Great Constant You
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Faith Strong Enough Journey
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I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Twist Surface Clean Turn
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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Learn Speak Word Quiet
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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me'.

People Usable Most Wear
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Let go of the things that make you feel dead! Life is worth living!

Worth Dead Feel Living
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We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

Live Injury Best Matter
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Ability Listen Temper Almost
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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Time Worst Storm Spring
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It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Mouth Power Determine Whisper
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I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

Happy People Always Anyone
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My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

Drink Mirror Front Watch
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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

People Thing Great Leader
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Clever World Today Myself
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Independent Person Own Lady
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Page Read Travel World
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Intellect Certain One Permanent
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

People Freedom Involve Want
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Marry Good Happy Become
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Only Life Must Lived
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Better Best Rest Good
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Most Listen Intent Reply
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Write Lot Above Thing
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A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Road Success Person Always
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Great Settle Heart Matter
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.

Falling Love Girlfriend Dating
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CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.

Struggle Unique Positive Talent's
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

War Receive Position Enemy
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We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like,

Mother Children Book Work
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Emotion Action Translate Compassion
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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
Attitude Challenge Yourself Good
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You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.

Self esteem Cut Physical Impairment
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No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

Atlantis Underwater Fictional
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say,

Moral Include Task World
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What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

Religion Media Portrays Weaponize
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Feel Shade Feel Experience
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

Candle Roof Light Gospel
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Halfway Believe Can There
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Time Certain Succeed Weakness
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Love Reject Share Truth
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Down Liberty Peace Defense
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