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Down's Syndrome Links

	Down's Syndrome Scotland - Information about the condition, with advice and guidance for individuals affected, their families and carers. Includes information about publications, membership and activities of the organisation.
	UK Resources for Down's Syndrome - A comprehensive set of addresses and links for Down's Syndrome on the web in the UK on the web. Includes links to government agencies, voluntary organisations and the full text of the 1996 Education Act.
	Down's Syndrome Association - Provides information, counselling and support for people with Down's syndrome, their families and carers, as well as for professionals. Also a campaigning organisation.
	Downs Syndrome Association - Bristol Branch - A parent-led support group for the parents and carers of those with Downs Syndrome. Information about events and support resources.
	GMDSA (Greater Manchester Branch of the Down's Association) - Provides information on Down's syndrome and support to parents, carers and professionals. Online newsletter, and list of resources.
	Lincolnshire Down's Syndrome Support Group - Contact details; also includes poems, stories, articles, and book reviews.
	Down Syndrome Liverpool - Providing support and information to people with Down Syndrome, their parents and carers in the Liverpool area with links to other sites. Includes an online newsletter.
	Down's Syndrome Association London - Support group for parents and carers of people with Down's Syndrome. Details of meetings and activities.
	Down's Syndrome North East - Branch of the Down's Syndrome Association offers parental counselling, subsidised leisure activities, Christmas parties and events, play-groups, and newsletters to people with Down's Syndrome, their families and their carers.
	Down's Syndrome Association - South West Thames Area - Information on their activities and contact details.
	Down's Heart Group - Offers support and information to families who have a member with Down's Syndrome and congenital heart defects. Forum and contact details.
	The Young Down's Group - A support group for parents of young children with Down's Syndrome in Norwich. Meeting and contact details.
	Ups and Downs - A support group of parents of children with Down's Syndrome in Southampton. Information about activities and resources, with contact details.
	Down's Syndrome Medical Interest Group - Information for healthcare professionals, including UK-specific growth charts, guidelines, and medical information library.
	PODS (Parents of Down's Syndrome) - Provides support, friendship and information for parents and carers of children with Down's Syndrome in Barnet and surrounding areas. Information on activities, stories, and contact details.
	Down Syndrome Research Foundation - A parent-based charity supporting research into the medical conditions collectively called Down's syndrome. Information on research, nutrition education, health care guidelines, and alternative therapies. Includes parents' stories.
	Learning about Intellectual Disabilities and Health - Collaboration between the Down's Syndrome Association and St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, has produced a comprehensive information resource, with particular emphasis on the ability of medical professions to empower their patients.
	National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register - Information about an anonymous register allowing researchers to analyse possible causal factors. Includes interpretation of the results.
	Leicestershire Down's Syndrome Group - Information about the support and advice network offered by this parents' group. Includes details of resources and services available to families affected by Downs Syndrome.

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Down's Syndrome There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Down's Syndrome Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Down's Syndrome "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Down's Syndrome Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Down's Syndrome "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Down's Syndrome "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Down's Syndrome When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Down's Syndrome "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Down's Syndrome Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Down's Syndrome "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Down's Syndrome When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Down's Syndrome "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Down's Syndrome Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Down's Syndrome Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Down's Syndrome "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Down's Syndrome I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Down's Syndrome Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Down's Syndrome Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George Down's Syndrome He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Down's Syndrome Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Down's Syndrome The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. 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