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Usher UK - Voluntary organisation run mainly by people with Usher syndrome, promoting the interests and well-being of all people who have Usher and their families. Information on activities and events.
A-Z to Deafblindness - Information about the condition, with an online guide to the Manual Alphabet, and a directory of resources, equipment, organisations, and conferences.
Yahoo! : DeafBlind_Terps - A Yahoo group of interpreters for the Deaf-Blind sharing experience and ideas.
Deafblind Scotland - Association of deafblind and dual-sensory impaired people offers information about the condition, and about support offered to sufferers, families and carers. Includes event and contact details.
Deafblind UK - National charity providing support services to, and campaigning on behalf of, deafblind adults and their carers. Includes information about the condition, their services, and FAQ.
Sense - UK deaf and blind charity provides information and advice about the various causes, their support services, membership and local groups, and events.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Deafblindness Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Deafblindness "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Deafblindness It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Deafblindness Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger ... 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 one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Deafblindness "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Deafblindness In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Deafblindness Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Deafblindness May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Deafblindness "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Deafblindness "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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Deafblindness "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Deafblindness "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Deafblindness I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Deafblindness Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Deafblindness Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Deafblindness It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Deafblindness "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Deafblindness "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) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Deafblindness Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Deafblindness Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Deafblindness Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Deafblindness
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