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British Blind Sport - Charity co-ordinating sport for the blind and partially sighted in the UK. Includes information on various sports and how they are adapted, fundraising, news, events, and a discussion forum.
Metro Blind Sport - A London based sports and social club for visually impaired people of all ages primarily living within the M25.
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.
Sheffield Goalball - A bunch of people who say they enjoy throwing themselves on the floor and chucking a large hard ball at each other whilst blindfolded. Rules, rankings and times and location of meetings.
UK Audio Network - Sports Network - Designed for people with vision difficulties. Includes channels on goalball, cricket, soccer, bowls, athletics, beepball and tenpin. Requires realplayer.
Air Rifle Shooting for the Visually Impaired - Tubslake Shooting Club in Hawkhurst, Kent, explain the specially adapted systems which use sound to locate the targets and report on their have a go day.
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Mencken The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Blind Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Blind "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." 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(Gerald Brenan) Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Blind Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Blind "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Blind The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Blind I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Blind We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Blind Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Blind LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Blind "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Blind Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Blind Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone I take my wife everywhere I go. 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(Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Blind Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Blind The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Blind
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