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Independent Living - Includes news, reviews, products and information designed to help disabled people live independently.
Association of Independent Living Advocates - Sets a standard for advocacy in the independent living field. Offers Accredited Training in Advocacy Course awarded by the University of Essex.
National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) - Advances the philosophy and advocates for the human rights of, and services for, people with disabilities. Includes a directory of local support schemes, employer's kit and a newsletter for personal assistants.
Disabled Living Centres Council - Offering free and ethical information and advice about products which can increase disabled or older people's choices about how they live. Regional centres, news and publications.
A Rough Guide to Independent Living - First published in a hard format, now updated and freely available. Includes advice on housing, dealing with officials, travel, work and education.
DASH - Disability advice and information for the people of St Helens. Includes advice on aids, benefits, discrimination, education and living in the community.
Disabled Living Foundation - Solutions for independent living. Advises on and provides equipment for disabled people.
Independent Living Alternatives - Promotes the right of disabled people to live independently. Information on support services, employing personal assistants, advocacy and rights.
Care and Repair England - Charity created to improve the housing and living conditions of older and disabled people. Campaigns, activities, advice on funding adaptions and repairs, rights, facts and figures.
The Complete Group - Consultancy service for individuals and authorities, training services, and personal assistants.
Leonard Cheshire - Information, support, assistance and publications for disabled people. News and views, online donation facility and links to other resources.
Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living - News, services, details of the library and information service plus how to use the access information database for Leicester.
Phab England - National charity dedicated to the integration of people with physical disabilities in the community.
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Independent Living The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Independent Living "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) 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 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Independent Living And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Independent Living Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Independent Living It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Independent Living Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Independent Living I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Independent Living When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Independent Living then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Independent Living Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Independent Living 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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Independent Living I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Independent Living Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Independent Living Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "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) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Independent Living "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Independent Living We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Independent Living Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Independent Living "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Independent Living "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Independent Living Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Independent Living I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen 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 Independent Living
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