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Oxfordshire Dyslexia Association - Local affiliate of the British Dyslexia Association offers advice, information, and details of their support for parents and teachers.
Ox Eyes - Association for the for the blind. Includes latest news, charity profile, upcoming events and contact details.
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People - Charity trains dogs to alert deaf people to sounds such as the alarm clock, doorbell, telephone, smoke alarm, baby alarm, and cooker timer.
Tricycle Centre for Children - Provides individualized education for children with autism, based on Applied Behaviour Analysis. Information about services offered.
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Disability Resources Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Disability Resources "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Disability Resources "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Disability Resources To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Disability Resources Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Disability Resources Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Disability Resources "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Disability Resources Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster 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 I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Disability Resources Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Disability Resources We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "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) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Disability Resources A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Disability Resources Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Disability Resources If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Disability Resources Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Disability Resources The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Disability Resources Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Disability Resources "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Disability Resources Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara Disability Resources People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen May you never leave your marriage alive. Disability Resources He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop "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 "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) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Disability Resources "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Disability Resources
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