By Noah Berlatsky — 2014
The supercrip narrative, disability rights groups say, mostly serves to make mainstream audiences feel awesome and inspired, while ignoring the actual difficulties faced by and prejudices directed at the vast majority of disabled people.
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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.
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One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, ‘Is it half full or half empty?’ So I drank the water. No more problem.
We read to know we are not alone.
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We are what we believe we are!
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.