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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Aimee Mullins

I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
AIMEE MULLINS

Amputee Arm Bone Cerebral Flesh Know Leg Palsy
I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
AIMEE MULLINS

Dream Easy People Point Responsibility Shape Some Yourself
Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Children Come Day First Some World
I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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Aside Base Girl Meet Second Slide Step Stick Wooden
It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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Disable Double Fact Make Objective Opinion Subjective
Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Adapt Adversity Change Inspirational Yet
And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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Ability Belief Confidence Disability Undermine
I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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Disable Disabled Handicape Hate Imply Less Way Whole
It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Enough Heel High Stilt Walk Woman
If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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Beautiful Broken Heart Discover Humanity Potential
And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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Certainly Come Enough Evolve Impact Language Technology
You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Better Connect Get Giving Roller Coaster Thing True Up
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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Adapt All Bullet Everything Instant Point See Stuff Triumph
Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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Body Disable Enhancement Hollywood Thinking
You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Certain Describe Illegitimate Impact Person Technology Thinking Word

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