British Lung Foundation - Ccharity which raises funds for medical research into lung disease. Leaflets can be ordered and a support group is available. Website contains no online information.
National Asthma Campaign - Independent UK charity. Special interest in children with asthma. Telephone helpline. Leaflets can be ordered - however little online information is provided.
Asthma News in the UK and Ireland - Information about this condition from a UK perspective. Includes news articles, statistics and complementary therapies.
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Respiratory Conditions Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Respiratory Conditions
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Respiratory Conditions 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 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
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You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Respiratory Conditions
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Respiratory Conditions He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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"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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Respiratory Conditions Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Respiratory Conditions
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Respiratory Conditions "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Respiratory Conditions What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Respiratory Conditions
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Respiratory Conditions The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Respiratory Conditions
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Respiratory Conditions "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Respiratory Conditions
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Respiratory Conditions Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Respiratory Conditions
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Respiratory Conditions When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Respiratory Conditions
