Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Related Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as... JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as... WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR. Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease ar... WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Based on objective tests of physical impairment, we found that the patients had levels of functional... BRIAN FALLON Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Because a review of the plain language of the ADA yields no statutory basis for distinguishing among... STANLEY MARCUS We have always acknowledged pornography as a disease that must be eradicated, but not through a repr... VIVI WIDYAWATI This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS It is possible to perceive your health as good in spite of what outsiders may objectively see as dis... DR. TRULS OSTBYE In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly ... STELLA YOUNG I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, t... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, t... JOHN NASH Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related d... S. JAY OLSHANSKY Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o... CHARLES RUFF Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limi... STEPHEN HAWKING You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are l... LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM I've decided that I'm going to collect as many spiders in a jar as I can and then pour them all over... SHARON BIGGS WALLER Sauces or peppers that arent hot, are like books that dont entretain (or vice versa). JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates y... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates y... JOHN GREEN Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptibl... MICHAEL GREGER There are a lot of things out there written that show the before and after but not the actual journe... RUTH ADAMS I will crawl upon my knees just to know the joy of suffering. SIDEWALK PROPHETS Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an ind... SUSAN SONTAG It was a flow-over from yesterday's news that the LDP and the Liberal party are working towards a co... RUSSELL JONES The throaty V-8 growl that William Clay Ford Jr. claims he likes. That was my last major contributio... WILLIAM ARMSTRONG a substantial and irreversible impairment of a major physical or mental function. KANSAS Boundaries are only as real as the consequences they carry - Daniel Ray Waring Jr. DANIEL RAY WARING JR We hope that the donations to J-LEAD are additional dollars to the Jewish philanthropic world, as op... GREG WOLF There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British r... MARIO TESTINO Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as h... ADRIAN MCKINTY The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmaker... MIKHAIL STRABO of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are ... ALBERT EINSTEIN They are playing chicken, and right now it appears that J.& J. has the upper hand. JOANNE K. WUENSCH They are playing chicken, and right now it appears that J&J has the upper hand. JOANNE WUENSCH Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are inf... DAVID BRAINERD There appears to be a material deviation on apparent US dollar strength (or euro weakness) as the go... DAVID HALL I have an understanding about disease and the relationship to birds and animals. I won't know near a... DAVE CLAUSEN When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rew... DEBBIE FORD But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. KATHY ACKER There are fears that are worth facing and there are fears that are not. You don't have to face all f... KIM HA CAMPBELL We are trying to both keep the disease under control as well as protect people from further infectio... ANDREW VORKINK We have acknowledged that there are no anticipated job losses that will arise as a consequence of th... JAY FORBES You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy. VIKRANT PARSAI Kip Brennan adds size and strength to our hockey club. We needed more of a physical presence. BRIAN BURKE We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and t... PAUL DUDLEY WHITE Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really ... CHANDLER CANTERBURY The person who regularly recites mantra attains liberation from the fears of disease and death. YAJUR VEDA Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy wh... JANE CAPUTI “A writer soon learns that easy to read is hard to write ...” CJ HECK I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON They're not that quick as much as they are physical. That took Staf out of his game. LUTE OLSON Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility. IMAM ALI (AS) Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilit... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN [W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are prote... ERNEST BECKER I believe that all these technical issues, although perhaps more extensive than NASA has as yet ackn... JERRY GREY In fact, Congress' own General Accounting Office issued a report last year reaffirming that prescrip... BRIAN SCHWEITZER It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newbo... VIC SNYDER Benchmarking, generally, is far from a science. When you're talking about private company benchmarki... BRIAN HAMILTON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The irony is that while most of us are optimistic about our futures, the reality is clear that accid... DAN HOUSTON Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human conditi... SAM WELLER And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increase... ERIK PAULSEN The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Progress is being made. The American people need to know that, ... Mistakes have been made, too, and... FRANK WOLF It is both a physical reality as well as a philosophical reality that all things have to function to... DONALD LYNN FROST Fears and expectations that date back to earlier experiences of dependency, but that didn't arise du... STAN TATKIN Vegas is coming off a strong run, and people are questioning whether that can continue. There are so... JOE FATH Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cann... GARTH STEIN As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. RALPH WALDO EMERSON As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect RALPH WALDO EMERSON This is a way of celebrating the fact that we are spiritual beings as well as physical beings. JANICE WOOD Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavo... JOHN OWEN Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality. STEPHEN MAGNUS I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxin... OMAR EPPS I felt that the biomedical and psychosocial approaches were insufficient to explain the disabilities... MARGARET G. STINEMAN They are displayed having a twisted sense of honor, 'taking no crap from anyone,' with easy access t... HOWARD ABADINSKY Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from. STEVEN MAGEE There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense an... LEMONY SNICKET All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting. JOHN MORTIMER [The mother's] going to have needs and limitations so he's being called to step up to the plate to m... GLORIA HAMILTON As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking pl... EUVIN NAIDOO Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban ... JOHN BOEHNER No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years... WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My... HELEN KELLER These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physi... DAVID BOWIE Impairment ratings don't necessarily correlate with functionality or lack thereof. Impairment rating... DR. MAC JOHNSON True freedom is freedom from internal as well as external limitations. TONY SAMARA My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is a disease that is occurring across the nation. As you age, your immunity wanes, and you are ... CINDY GROSS Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been tre... JOE HECK Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER We are only as free as our fears allows us to be. GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Over the years, our patients have shared some amazing and emotional stories as they've recovered fro... KATHLEEN YOSKO Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for... JANE YOLEN My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolv... CHRIS MILK
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BRENNAN MANNING The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting ... BRENNAN MANNING Yes, God saved us because He loved us. But He is God. He has infinite imagination. Couldn’t He hav... BRENNAN MANNING The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with. BRENNAN MANNING Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but ... BRENNAN MANNING The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotio... BRENNAN MANNING And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman... BRENNAN MANNING The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Je... BRENNAN MANNING When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour... BRENNAN MANNING For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec... BRENNAN MANNING We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, ou... BRENNAN MANNING The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. BRENNAN MANNING Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence fo... BRENNAN MANNING Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any c... BRENNAN MANNING When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour... BRENNAN MANNING Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. BRENNAN MANNING Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are ... BRENNAN MANNING Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. BRENNAN MANNING As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac... BRENNAN MANNING Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God... BRENNAN MANNING The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awak... BRENNAN MANNING While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s... BRENNAN MANNING To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit with... BRENNAN MANNING Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes... BRENNAN MANNING When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdainin... BRENNAN MANNING The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba’... BRENNAN MANNING [The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dom... BRENNAN MANNING We're looking forward to another good season. BARBARA BRENNAN We've talked about it, BARBARA BRENNAN We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy... BARBARA BRENNAN He's always been a good shooter. Nobody knew about him and I'm sure these guys didn't. I knew they w... RICH BRENNAN I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization." There is a proverb... MARIE BRENNAN Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people sta... BRENNAN MANNING Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. BRENNAN MANNING The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better ... BRENNAN MANNING