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The British Paralympics Association - Charity responsible for selecting, preparing, entering, funding and managing Britain's teams at the Paralympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games.

Ayrshire Special Games - Information about a tournament for children and young people with physical and learning disabilities, staged at Inverclyde Sports Centre in November 2002.

British Commonwealth Paraplegic Games - History of the British Commonwealth Paraplegic Games

Cerebral Palsy Sport England and Wales - History of Cerebral Palsy sports, classifications, contacts and sport-specific information from this administration.

Goalball.co.uk - Governing body for the sport. Includes development plan, events calendar, mailing lists, and contacts. Features text only and graphic versions of site.

English Federation of Disability Sport - National body responsible for developing sport for disabled people in England. Regional pages, information on coaching, different sports, publications, help and advice.

English Sports Association for People with Learning Difficulty - Offers opportunities and advice to people with learning difficulty who want to take part in sports activities. News, projects and resources.

London Sports Forum For Disabled People - Events, publications, projects, news, information and advice about disabled sports in the Greater London area.

Rugby Sport for the Disabled Association - Disabled sport including swimming, table tennis, bowls, and archery. Special events such as paddling across the channel and river raft racing.

Oldham Owls, Lancashire - Club active in several disability sports including swimming, basketball, table tennis and fishing. Club details, including honours and history.

Ability Sports Association - Bristol based organisation promoting sport for people with disabilities throughout the South West. News, events and details of local clubs with session times and contacts.

Bolton Disability Sports Association - A summary of their work with a list of events and contact information.

Bournemouth Sports Forum for the Disabled - Offers several sports on a turn up and join in basis.

Disability Sports Northern Ireland - Develops opportunities for people with disabilities to take part in sport, recreation and physical activity. Groups, newsletter, projects and photo gallery.

Disability View - Sports - Full text of a range of articles from Disability Review magazine.

Disabled Shooters Group - Clay pigeon shooting. Offers have a go days, events, and the opportunity to compete internationally.

No Limits Sports Club for Children with Special Needs - Promotes sport for disabled children living in or around West Lothian, from recreational activities to full Olympic or Paralympic standard. What's on, reports and newsletters.

Red Diamonds - Wokingham and Bracknell Disabled Sports and Social Club offering table tennis, swimming and field events. Includes information about the Wokingham Games and meetings.

Solihull Sports Club for the Disabled - A sports club for disabled people run by disabled people. Brief introduction, meeting times and locations plus contact details.

Flyability - Hang gliding and paragliding opportunities for people with disabilities. Information on tandem flights, courses, availability, specialist equipment and a scheme to train more pilots.

Greenbank Sports Academy - Fully accessible sports centre in Liverpool with accommodation and restaurant. Offers foundation degrees in sports development for disabled people. Includes activities, events and news.

Shepway ISOD Powerlifting Club - Club with a special interest in powerlifting for people with disabilities. Introduction, photographs and location map.

Where Can I Do? - Advice and information on sport, health and fitness for people with disabilities. Includes details of accessible activities, facilities and equipment , membership newsletters and forums.

Graham Marsh - Transplant Sportsman - Gold medal winning golfer and athlete at transplant games worldwide. Personal story and links.

Western Isles Disability Sport - Information on a range of sports and events for people with disabilities.

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Disability Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein 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 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 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 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 Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Disability America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait "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, ignorance, g "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Disability Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Disability When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Disability "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Disability "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Disability "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Disability "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Disability When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Disability We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Disability I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Disability Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Disability "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Disability The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Disability You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Disability Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Disability I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Disability It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Disability A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Disability Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Disability
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