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Andy's Spinal Cord Injury Website - Personal account of life as a tetraplegic. Contains community message boards, interactive chat and support.
Spinal Injuries Scotland - National charity, in Scotland, for those with a spinal cord injury (SCI). Includes information about the spine, and details of support for sufferers, their families and friends.
TBPI Group U.K. - A site written for and by people who have Brachial Plexus injuries. The site provides information and support for people affected by these often life changing and disabling injuries.
Spinal Injuries Association - National organisation of spinal cord injured people. Useful selection of fact sheets and a chat room.
Trust PA - Helps those paralysed by spinal cord injury and supports the development of curative treatments. Includes details of fundraising events and contact details.
Jasper's Spinal Column - Steve, Jasper to his friends, shows how he has coped with life after spinal injury. FAQ, biography, holidays and links.
SpinalNet - Information on spinal cord injury cures, rehabilitation, latest research and treatment of paraplegics and tetraplegics
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Spinal Trauma Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Spinal Trauma Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "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) Spinal Trauma In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Spinal Trauma Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Spinal Trauma 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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Spinal Trauma "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Spinal Trauma Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Spinal Trauma "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Spinal Trauma Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Spinal Trauma The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Spinal Trauma "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Spinal Trauma It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Spinal Trauma Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Spinal Trauma Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Spinal Trauma Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Spinal Trauma It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Spinal Trauma Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Spinal Trauma It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Spinal Trauma Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Spinal Trauma Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw "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) Spinal Trauma The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Spinal Trauma
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