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British Stammering Association - Offering information and support to sufferers of all ages, as well as teachers, employers, therapists and families. Details of services, news, online magazine and research updates.

The Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood - Featuring tips and advice for children, parents and therapists, together with full information about the charity and the specialist speech and language therapy service which is offered at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in London.

The Stammer Trust - Registered Oxford based charity supporting stammerers, and offering treatment at Apple House. Information about the treatment and the therapists, with newsletter and links.

Discrimination Against People Who Stammer in the UK - Information and articles about how the Disability Discrimination Act applies to stammering in the fields of employment, provision of services and education. Also about social security benefits for people who stammer.

The Starfish Project - Offering training and recovery services to stammerers and their families. Includes details of services, project background, testimonials and media reports.

Stuttering Chat - Online support for sufferers. Includes information on how to join this Yahoo club, with user life stories and contributed papers available to view.

Special Interest Group Disorders of Fluency - A group of UK speech and lanaguage therapists sharing information about fluency disorders. Background information, how to join, events diary and articles.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Language and Speech Disorders The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Language and Speech Disorders It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Language and Speech Disorders Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Language and Speech Disorders A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Language and Speech Disorders You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Language and Speech Disorders "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Language and Speech Disorders I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Language and Speech Disorders "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Language and Speech Disorders You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Language and Speech Disorders Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Language and Speech Disorders Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Language and Speech Disorders "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Language and Speech Disorders Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Language and Speech Disorders I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Language and Speech Disorders This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Language and Speech Disorders Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Language and Speech Disorders They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Language and Speech Disorders "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Language and Speech Disorders Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Language and Speech Disorders Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Language and Speech Disorders There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Language and Speech Disorders
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