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British Wheelchair Sports Foundation - Sport plays a vital role in the rehabilitation of those with disabilities and can often be a catalyst for increased confidence, self esteem and a positive outlook on life. About the foundation, news of events and means of contact.
Little Venice Guest House - Just 5 minutes walk to Stoke Mandeville Hospital offering bed and breakfast. Local and accommodation details, price, directions, means of contact and booking conditions.
Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio - Broadcasting 24 hours a day on 1575AM. News, programme schedule, station history and contact details.
Stoke Mandeville Stadium - Managed on behalf of the British Wheelchair Association, the stadium provides facilities for leading disabled sportsmen and women. The centre features a swimming pool, athletics track, multi-sports courts, training studio, cafe, creche and accommodation.
Wheelchair Sports Worldwide - A wholly operated foundation of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation. Information about the foundation, scedule of events, press releases and contact details.
Wheelers and Dealers Square Dance Club - Local dance club meeting monthly with close ties to the hospital. History of the club along with dates of future activities.
Whitethorn Fields - Provide day nursery and nursery school facilities for babies, toddlers and children supervised by fully qualified staff. Photos and information about the nursery and it's surrounding can be found along with contact details.
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Stoke Mandeville "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Stoke Mandeville "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "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) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Stoke Mandeville "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Stoke Mandeville The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Stoke Mandeville I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Stoke Mandeville There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Stoke Mandeville "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Stoke Mandeville We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Stoke Mandeville Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Stoke Mandeville Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Stoke Mandeville "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Stoke Mandeville A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Stoke Mandeville The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Stoke Mandeville History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Stoke Mandeville One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Stoke Mandeville A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Stoke Mandeville It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau 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 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Stoke Mandeville Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Stoke Mandeville "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Stoke Mandeville "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Stoke Mandeville We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Stoke Mandeville
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