Blind Society for North Tyneside - Offers assistance to blind and partially sighted people throughout the borough. Details of services, newsletter and staff.
Learning Disabilities Federation - Seeks to combat social isolation and inequality for people with learning disabilities and those who support their care. Includes annual review and details of services, location and projects.
Community and Health Care Forum - Allows those with concerns about health and social issues to have a voice. Details events, projects and the local health trust.
North Tyneside Disability Forum - Group that aims to exchange information, experience, concerns and expertise on matters of interest and concern surrounding disability. Includes newsletter, reports, events and links.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Society and Culture Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Society and Culture
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara 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 Society and Culture
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Society and Culture "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with 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.
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The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar 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 blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 Society and Culture A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Society and Culture ... 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
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Society and Culture
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "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) Society and Culture
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Society and Culture 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 A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "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) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Society and Culture
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
