Terence Mendoza - Extensive information from optician about how the eyes work.
Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group - International network of individuals working to promote access to reviews of interventions to treat or prevent eye diseases or visual impairment. Information about activities, newsletters and publications.
The Ophthalmic Research Network - A resource for anyone interested in any aspect of ophthalmic research and eye health, developed by Moorfields Eye Hospital.
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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Vision Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Vision
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Vision "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Vision
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Vision "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) 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 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 Vision
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Vision Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Vision
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Vision "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Vision
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Vision I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Vision
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Vision Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Vision
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Vision "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Vision
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Vision "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) 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 I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Vision
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost 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
grie Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Vision .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Vision
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Vision Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Vision
