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The Blind Centre for Northern Ireland - Providing direct services to blind and visually impaired people. Includes news, services and information on making a donation.
Camphill Communities Northern Ireland - Provides details of the four centres in Tyrone and Down, plus information about the aims of the Camphill Movement.
Disability Sports NI - Working to promote equality opportunities for people with disabilities to take part in sport and recreation. Features information about the group, projects, news, and contact details.
Irish Deaf - Directory listing organisations in Ireland, north and south, dealing for and with the deaf community. News, courses, jobs and events are also listed.
The William Keown Trust - Provides services and activism for disabled people. Includes newsletters, plus information of their achievement awards and access audits.
Disability Action - Campaigning body with information on their services and events.
Wheelchair Friendly - Information on facilities in the Portadown, Banbridge and Lurgan areas compiled by local wheelchair users.
Parents and Professionals and Autism (PAPA) - A registered charity in Northern Ireland whose aim is to promote the needs of people with Autism and their carers. Research, articles, and book reviews.
The Irish Wheelchair Association - Cross-border organisation dedicated to the achievement of full social, economic and educational integration of people with disabilities. Includes details of services and advocacy.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard Disability Resources Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Disability Resources The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Disability Resources If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Disability Resources The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Disability Resources Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Disability Resources "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 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Disability Resources Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde 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 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 Disability Resources An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Disability Resources Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi Disability Resources 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 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Disability Resources Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Disability Resources Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Disability Resources "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Disability Resources It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain "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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Disability Resources If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Disability Resources blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Disability Resources Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Disability Resources Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Disability Resources "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Disability Resources cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Disability Resources "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Disability Resources
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