Blindness and Visual Impairment Links

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Blindness and Visual Impairment Links

	Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) - National UK charity providing a good range of information for blind or partially sighted people.
	National Library for the Blind (UK) - A free library service for visually impaired readers who want books in accessible formats. Offer braille books by mail, or by downloading an electronic file.
	Talking Newspaper Association UK - A registered charity providing national and local newspapers and magazines on audio tape, computer disk, e-mail and CD-ROM. Small subscription fee. Details of the new Sightline project.
	Listening Books - A charity that provides a postal audio book library to people throughout the UK. There is a annual subscription. Online catalogue.
	International Glaucoma Association - A UK charity providing advice and support to glaucoma sufferers, campaigning for and funding research. FAQ sheets available on site.
	British Wireless for the Blind Fund - Provides specially adapted radio equipment on a free permanent loan basis to registered blind people who do not have a set they can use and are not in a position to purchase one. Also provides a catalogue of suitable sets for those who can purchase one.
	Calibre - A UK charity which provides free cassette recordings of thousands of books for blind or print disabled people.
	AccessBooks - New approach to easily accessible libraries of books and periodicals for non-print readers.
	ClearVision - A nationwide lending library of braille and print children's books.
	Nystagmus Network - A small charity providing information and support for sufferers. Website offers a variety of colour schemes to aid reading.
	Action for Blind People - UK charity. Site contains a good range of information covering the practical aspects of dealing with visual impairment and blindness.
	The Macular Disease Society - A self-help society for people suffering from Macular Disease. Includes information and practical advice on making the most of remaining vision, with details of their events and activities.
	The Eyeless Trust - A charity offering information about Anophthalmia, Microphthalmia and Coloboma, and support for families affected.
	Aspire Consultancy - Offers assessment and training services for visually impaired people, and corporate clients. Also supplies appropriate specialist technology and software.

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(Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Blindness and Visual Impairment Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Blindness and Visual Impairment When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. 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He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Blindness and Visual Impairment The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Blindness and Visual Impairment 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 Unha Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Blindness and Visual Impairment Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Blindness and Visual Impairment Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Blindness and Visual Impairment Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Blindness and Visual Impairment "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Blindness and Visual Impairment Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Blindness and Visual Impairment Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) We do not have censorship. 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