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Disability Now - Print publication for everyone with an interest in disability. Includes archive.
Disability View - Online edition of print magazine. Offers a free copy.
BBC Education - See Hear on Saturday - A magazine programme for the deaf and hard of hearing presented in sign language with open subtitles.
British Deaf News online - Magazine for deaf people and British Sign Language users. Includes news, interviews, history, cultural and social issues, sports, jobs and subscriptions.
Hearing Concern - Hampshire based informal magazine for anyone interested in hearing matters.
Cue and Review Recording Service - Service for the blind. MP3 audio downloads from magazines including The Herald, J17, Kerrang and History Today. Includes details of transcription services.
anAurora - A quarterly Internet magazine for the disAbled woman covering many topics such as food, health and fashion.
Telegraph Online Newspaper - News and features for reading online or downloading to braille machines and speech synthesisers. Not connected with The Telegraph newspaper.
Hand Wave - A leisure magazine for deaf and hard of hearing people. Includes subscription information, highlights of past issues, and information about entertainment and travel.
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti News and Media I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "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 News and Media Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou News and Media "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) News and Media "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain News and Media To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau 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. -- Crow "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) News and Media A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) News and Media The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) News and Media Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) News and Media "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) News and Media Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins News and Media "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler News and Media For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford News and Media I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) News and Media One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words News and Media It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous News and Media We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes News and Media In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone News and Media Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf News and Media I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands News and Media Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media
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