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	Federation of Voluntary Bodies - An umbrella association of voluntary organisations concerned with the welfare of those suffering from mental handicap and accounting for over 75% of direct service provision in this area. Includes information on activities and a diary.
	The Lucia Foundation - National organization concerned with the interests of people with schizophrenia and their caring relatives and providing support groups, information, a helpline, counselling and supported employment through Worklink.
	Irish Hospice Foundation - Information on the society, its work and the uses to which funds are put.
	National Council for the Blind of Ireland - The Council is a not for profit, voluntary organisation offering a service nationwide to persons experiencing problems with their eye-sight. NCBI is a registered charity. Detailed information is given, a catalogue provided, every staff-member's email listed and fundraising events profiled.
	Fighting Blindness (Ireland) - This self-help voluntary organisation, promoting research into retinal degenerative diseases, provides its aims, background and articles on the diseases and related research, details on fundraising, contact notes and a contact form.
	St. Michael's House - A non-denominational voluntary body providing facilities and services to over 1,500 people with learning disabilities in Dublin City and County. Includes listing of schools and facilities, services and activities and a recruitment page.
	Coeliac Society of Ireland - Provides information on the condition of gluten intolerance, notes on gluten-free food in Ireland. personal stories, links, a guestbook and contact details.
	Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind - Official details of this organisation, the only one in Ireland providing guide dogs as mobility for the blind and visually impaired. Outlines its work, how visitors can support it and contact notes.
	Irish Guide Dogs Association (American Branch) - Fundraising branch of the only provider of guide dogs for the blind and visually impaired in Ireland details its events, committee and contact information. Includes a current profile of the Association's work.
	disABILITY.ie - Resources for people with disabilties all over Ireland.
	Dyslexia Association of Ireland - Dublin-based organization offering information about, and support for, dyslexia.
	Footsteps, Down Syndrome - Information about the condition, resources available, events and contact details.
	Irish Society for Autism - Support groups for parents, providing information on Autism, lobbying for the rights of people with the condition, and providing services for people with Autism.
	National Association for the Mentally Handicapped of Ireland - The co-ordinating body for over one hundred and fifty organisations providing support and services for twenty-five thousand people with mental handicap.
	Brainwave - The Irish Epilepsy Association offers information about the condition, their services and publications, and their branch network.

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Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Disability Resources There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Disability Resources Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A I do not like broccoli. 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Mencken I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Disability Resources If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Disability Resources "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Disability Resources Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Disability Resources A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Disability Resources "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Disability Resources Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. 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