DASH - Disability advice and information for the people of St Helens.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Disability Resources "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Disability Resources
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Disability Resources 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
sea Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Disability Resources
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Disability Resources In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Disability Resources
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Disability Resources There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Disability Resources
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disability Resources If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Disability Resources
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Disability Resources It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Disability Resources
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney 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 wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Disability Resources Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Disability Resources
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Disability Resources 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous 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
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>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Disability Resources "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Disability Resources
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Disability Resources Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Disability Resources
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Disability Resources Spinster: A bachelor's wife. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Disability Resources
