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The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you. Stella Young

You Living About Disability Any Works Thing Adapt

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives. Stella Young

Daily People Simple Think Our See About Simple Thing Disability Disabled Know Expect Really Lives Daily Lives Thing

Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face significant social stigma around their disease. Tedros Adhanom

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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability. Walter O'Brien

IQ Once Ability Disability Over Over It Becomes Stops Your Beings

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. Andrew Greeley

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. Annette Funicello

Me Way Disability Does Wheelchair Cane

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. Barbara Mikulski

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The national framework of social insurance - social security, unemployment and disability benefits, work programs, and workers' compensation - protected citizens from the kinds of risks that private markets couldn't or wouldn't insure. Ben Fountain

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of. Calvin Trillin

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights. Carson Kressley

Gay You Rights Age Skin Physical Color Disability Absurd Concerned Inequity Different Whether Different Color Straight Your Aware

Despite the fact that important measures such as the Americans with Disabilities Act passed only with crucial Republican support, the public - and the community of disability advocates - normally identifies this issue with the Democratic party. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

While health reform is a worthy goal, we shouldn't pay for it by taxing those who already have high medical costs because they or someone in their family has a disability. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Health Family Pay Those High Worthy Someone Costs Disability Because Health Reform Goal Reform While Taxing Who Medical

Only three per cent of people are born with a disability; the rest acquire it through accident or illness, but people come out of it. Thanks to medical advances, bodies heal. Esther McVey

People Rest Three Accident Thanks Out Born Per Only Through Disability Advances Come Heal Cent Acquire Bodies Illness Medical

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. Ike Skelton

Knowledge Treat Research Cold Detect Rarest Prevent Disability Genetic New New Knowledge Goal Disease Common Acquire Disorder Help

Most powerful is when you see a person on camera with a disability, and it's not the point of the story. That's happening more and more. Not enough, let's be clear, but it's happening more. Jason Winston George

You Enough See More More And More Point Disability Clear Powerful Most Most Powerful Camera Person Happening Story

Once you're retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you're done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance - which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast - takes over. Jean Chatzky

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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 Granholm

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Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. Jessa Gamble

Disability Unconscious Ultimate Being

The Paralympic Games actually turned my whole mentality around about disability. When you're in the Paralympic athletes' village and there are 4,000 disabled people, you stop seeing disability. Totally. Lee Pearson

You People Athletes Seeing Totally About Mentality Disability Disabled Around Stop Turned Games Whole Village Actually

I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I'm on a horse, I'm more worried about what the riding hat is doing to my hair than what my bent legs and arms are doing. What riding has given me is respect. Lee Pearson

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability. Lee Pearson

Focusing About Disability Push Had Sport Always Being Media

Before taking up dressage, I'd distanced myself from the Paralympics because I hadn't wanted to be defined by my disability. Then when I grew up and got an office job, things started to change. I'm actually allergic to horses, but I'm even more allergic to paperwork! Lee Pearson

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