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	British Cochlear Implant Group - A professional body representing UK Cochlear Implant Centres and specialist medical practitioners. Includes information for professionals, people with cochlear implants, and potential recipients and their families.
	British Tinnitus Association - Information about the condition for sufferers and health professionals, and about the activities of this charity. Details of information, support and training services.
	Defeating Deafness - The Hearing Research Trust - Charity supporting medical research and education to secure improvements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hearing impairment. Includes information and advice, articles, and FAQ.
	Ménière's Society - Founded to support people with Ménière's disease and those who care for them. Information about the organisation, with advice on managing the symptoms of vertigo, tinnitus and deafness.
	The Patients' Baha Website - Information about bone-anchored hearing aids. Includes advice, patients' stories, chat-room, and volunteer support contacts.
	The Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Site - Central link point internationally for complete information on tinnitus, tinnitus retraining therapy, hyperacusis therapy. Links to scientific studies on this subject.
	What is a Coclear Implant? - Information site produced by Advanced Bionics (UK) Ltd, and aimed at teenagers.
	Single Sided Deafness - The BBC offer information on the condition, causes, and treatment options.
	Equip - Hearing Disorders - The NHS Electronic Quality Information for Patients project (Equip) offers a directory of links to information for people affected by hearing loss and deafness.
	Auditory Processing Disorder in the United Kingdom - A voluntary organisation to promote recognition of this disorder. Information section, member area, links and calendar.

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Deafness and Hearing Impairment "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Deafness and Hearing Impairment "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Deafness and Hearing Impairment No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Deafness and Hearing Impairment "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) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Deafness and Hearing Impairment These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Deafness and Hearing Impairment I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Deafness and Hearing Impairment Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Deafness and Hearing Impairment All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Deafness and Hearing Impairment A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Deafness and Hearing Impairment Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Deafness and Hearing Impairment My other wife is beautiful. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Deafness and Hearing Impairment Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Deafness and Hearing Impairment "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius C�sar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig 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 Deafness and Hearing Impairment It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Deafness and Hearing Impairment "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Deafness and Hearing Impairment Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- Fran�ois de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Deafness and Hearing Impairment 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 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Deafness and Hearing Impairment I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Deafness and Hearing Impairment blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Deafness and Hearing Impairment I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Deafness and Hearing Impairment A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. 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