Centre for Deaf Studies - Run by Bristol University, and concentrating solely on research and education that aims to benefit the deaf community. Includes course details, on-line learning opportunities, and a library of deaf issues.
Scottish Sensory Centre - Promotes and supports new developments and effective practices in the education of children and young people with sensory impairments, (visual impairment, deaf and deafblind). Information about their courses, research, publications, and resources.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Training "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Training
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Training Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Training
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Training Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Training
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Training The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Training
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Training I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Training
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Training A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Training
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Training The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Training
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Training You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Training
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Training Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Training
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Training Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Training
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Training Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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