Muscular Dystrophy Campaign - Information about muscular dystrophy. Detailed information about duchenne, becker and many other neuromuscular conditions. Large text version of site available.
Parent Project UK - A charity set up by parents and supporters of boys with Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy that promotes research to find a cure or viable treatments.
Duchenne Family Support Group - For families affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Minimal information online but telephone helpline numbers supplied.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Muscular Dystrophies Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Muscular Dystrophies
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Muscular Dystrophies Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Muscular Dystrophies
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Muscular Dystrophies Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Muscular Dystrophies
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Muscular Dystrophies "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Muscular Dystrophies
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Muscular Dystrophies Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Muscular Dystrophies
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Muscular Dystrophies "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Muscular Dystrophies
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Muscular Dystrophies "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Muscular Dystrophies
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Muscular Dystrophies There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Muscular Dystrophies
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Muscular Dystrophies If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Muscular Dystrophies
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Muscular Dystrophies "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Muscular Dystrophies
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Muscular Dystrophies Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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