"I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'"

-- Aimee Mullins

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“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.”
“I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck.”
“Everybody dies â€¦ The thing is, to have a life before we die.”
“There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.”
“Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?”
“I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.”
“Act with integrity. Live up to your idea of who you are.”
“The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.”

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