HIP (Hearing Impaired People) - A social and support group for hard of hearing people in West Yorkshire. Details of events, membership, and information about the Leeds Society for Deaf and Blind People.
Remap Leeds and Bradford Panel - Volunteers design and supply specialised equipment for essential daily needs and recreational activities. Examples, products, news and funding.
Leeds and Bradford Dyslexia Association - Information on Dyslexia, and the organisation's support for dylexics, their families, teachers. Details of services offered, membership, and contacts.
LDGN - Yahoo group of activists in West Yorkshire with disabilities, seeking to promote disability rights.
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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-- William Faulkner We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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-- H. L. Mencken Disability Resources Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
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Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- Elbert Hubbard Disability Resources Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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-- Albert Einstein Disability Resources
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
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-- Sydney Smith The gods too are fond of a joke.
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-- David Letterman Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Albert Schweitzer Disability Resources
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
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-- Cass Daley I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
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-- Nanette Newman, British actress I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Ernest Hemingway Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Disability Resources
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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- Bertrand Russell
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-- Paul Dirac Disability Resources
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) What do you take me for, an idiot?
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- Ludwig Wittgenstein Disability Resources There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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-- Calvin Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Disability Resources
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln His ignorance is encyclopedic
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-- Mark Twain The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
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