Teamwork Trust - Provides places of work which provide support to people with disabilities, enabling them to be independent and to contribute to the success of local industry. Philosophy, locations, who is eligible to work there and how to make contact.
The Northamptonshire Society for Autism - A charity for people with autistic spectrum disorders and their families, and providing a voice for autism. Includes information about the condition, their services, fundraising and volunteer opportunities.
Deafconnect - Once the Northants and Rutland Mission to the Deaf, now offering services and support to empower deaf people in the area, and deaf awareness training.
Alderwood Care Home - Offers specialist residential care for children and young adults with complex Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Information on services.
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Disability Resources "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "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) Disability Resources
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Disability Resources Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Disability Resources
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Disability Resources A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Disability Resources
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Disability Resources Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Disability Resources
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Disability Resources The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Disability Resources
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Disability Resources You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Disability Resources
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Disability Resources "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Disability Resources
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Disability Resources A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Disability Resources
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Disability Resources When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Disability Resources "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Disability Resources
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Disability Resources Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Disability Resources
