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Barrow and Districts Society for the Blind - Information about the 'Blind Shop' in Barrow, and the society's residential home Ostley House.
Carlisle People First - A group which is run by and for people who are labelled as having a learning difficulty. They provide self, citizen and crisis advocacy and also a circles of support scheme throughout North East Cumbria.
West House, Cockermouth - A charitable organisation providing a range of community based support services to people with learning disabilities living in West Cumbria.
The Oaklea Trust - A charitable organisation which is dedicated to providing services for people with learning disabilities and other associated disabilities.
North Cumbria Dyslexia Association - Local affiliate of British Dyslexia Association offers information about their membership, activities and events; includes a newsletter.
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Disability Resources After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Disability Resources I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Disability Resources "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Disability Resources The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green 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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Disability Resources If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Disability Resources Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Disability Resources Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Disability Resources We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Disability Resources If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Disability Resources Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Disability Resources Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist "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) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Disability Resources "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Disability Resources Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Disability Resources Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 Disability Resources Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disability Resources "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Disability Resources "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Disability Resources Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Disability Resources Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Disability Resources "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Disability Resources I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Disability Resources
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