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Ten-20.com - Disability portal.
Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance - Guide to and self-assessment service for these two government benefits. Includes bulletin board and chat room.
Gateshead Access Panel - Disability access consultants and pressure group. Publications, information on training, auditing and volunteer opportunities
Ouch! - BBCi lifestyle site that reflects the wider view of life for disabled people, with creativity, community, news, messageboards, humour, and user interaction.
Mobility Care - Repair and maintenance for mobility scooters, wheelchairs and power chairs in the Midlands area.
The Parchment Trust - Hastings, East Sussex - The website providing information about the non-profit making trust that has successfully helped adults with mild to harsh physical and mental disabilities.
Dial UK - Registered charity with 140 local disability information and advice services run by and for disabled people. Site designed for disabled people. News, information, local contact points, services, how to volunteer.
NE Ability - Information on employment, sport, general lifestyle and other resources for people with disabilities and supportive organisations in the North East.
Focus on Disability - Provides information for those disabled in the UK covering topics such as benefits, benefit rates, contacts and organisations, independent living, social services, NHS, and mobility.
Wheelchair-SOS - Directory of information for disabled people. Includes reviews of equipment, vehicles, holidays, therapies and other advice.
ProdisabilityUK - Directory of disability groups and organisations. Includes news and forums.
Disability World - Information on disability issues, directory of suppliers and adapted holiday accommodation, links and forum.
You're Able - Offering help and advice on important issues such as employment, motoring, equipment, money, computing, health and the community.
Disability Search - Portal offering mobility, ability and disability information.
Rowan Organisation - Services provided by organisation of disabled people which provides disabled people with access to information, services and resources in order to increase their opportunity for independence.
Disability Information Service - Part of the Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Disabled, based in Surrey. Provides a database of services for disabled people.
RADAR - The Disability Network - National UK organisation run by and for disabled people. Bookshop, mailing list and email chat service. Links to other relevant sites.
Disability UK - Disabled and disability issues covering health, advice and resources.
Independent Healthy Living Network Ltd. - Non-profit making company to assist people with disabilities and/or their carers. Contains links, on-line games and events listings.
Gay Disabled Men's Group - North East England community. Offers advice, support and information as well as a web based meeting place for gay and disabled men.
Famous Disabled People - Includes rock and pop personalities, sportsmen and women, authors, politicians, presenters, scientists and military heroes.
4dp.com - A UK web portal for disabled people. Live disability news and holidays, online shopping, and chat. [Requires registration. Not all pages are accessible to persons with disabilities.]
A Step Forward - Information and community site. News, rights and equality, travel and chat.
One For Us - A site for people with learning disabilities rather than parents or carers. Includes information on education, housing, money and other important issues as well as space for people to tell their own stories.
Access-Ability - One stop link shop for those with disabilities. Includes informative articles on current UK legislation plus travel, health, equipment and a notice board.
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Disability Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Disability The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Disability I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Disability Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Disability In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Disability Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Disability "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Disability For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Disability You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Disability Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Disability "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Disability "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Disability "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "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) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Disability Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Disability Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Disability What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Disability There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Disability "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Disability Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Disability When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Disability Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Disability
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