Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

quote by David Ogilvy
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Disabled

We want something
To express ourselves
It is not that
Without anything
We are disabled.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

quote by Shia LaBeouf
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While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

quote by Ray Kroc
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Don't Marry Me!

I cannot cook
I cannot clean the house
I cannot go to work
I cannot even wash my own body.

Yes, I am a disable
but I have a heart
and it goes to you
will you marry me? ....

Oh, yes
I said I have a heart...
DON'T MARRY ME! !

poem by Marites C. Cayetano
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For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

quote by Mark Haddon
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This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

quote by Michael Medved
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When I Fail To See

When I fail to SEE the suffering of people,
Do not call me a visually impaired,
But call me a blind.

When I ignore the agony of hard labor,
Do not call me a physically handicapped,
But call me a crippled.

When I am inaudible to the cries of help,
Do not call me a hearing impaired,
But call me a deaf.

When we, the able bodied find it tough,
To survive under the comfortable condition,
How do the disabled survive under the hostile limitation?

poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi
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I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

quote by Chris Burke
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I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

quote by Lonnie Earl Johnson
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Disability

she has a disability,
she's not an alien,
not some freak!

she has feelings and dreams,
just like you!
she works hard, harder than most,

and gets things done,
in spite of......
she loves to read and to think,

her mind is not warped....
she doesnt want your pity,
she wants your respect.

she's human, not a joke,
she's nobody's mistake,
with a heart open and caring....

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poem by Eric Cockrell
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By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

quote by Betty Hill
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You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

quote by Steve Israel
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It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled - based on one occasion out of hundreds.

quote by Gerald Walpin
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A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

quote by Millicent Fawcett
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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

quote by Lawrence Bixby
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The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

quote by Bill Toomey
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A Poem Without Italics

A poem incapable of italics
is simply pathetic
- Jackrudin

a poem in which
even when necessary
you can’t
use italics
whether through ignorance
or through plain disabled
or through a technicality
is a sad poem

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poem by Raj Arumugam
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We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

quote by Janet Reno
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Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

quote by Kathleen Blanco
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