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Ability UK - Providing healthy living centres with a particular focus on the inclusion of people who have special needs arising from disabilities or mental illness.
The Blue Badge Alliance - Independent association dedicated towards the betterment and wellbeing of disabled people within the UK. Information on the association's aims, member benefits and matters of interest.
BREAK charity for specialist care - Charity that provides a wide range of services for children, adults and families with special needs. These include respite care, UK holidays in Norfolk and the West Country and specialist child care.
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People - Organisation which operates eight centres covering all aspects of disability.
Spinal Injuries Association - National organisation of spinal cord injured people. Useful selection of fact sheets and a chat room.
British Council of Disabled People - BCODP is a national umbrella organisation for groups controlled by disabled people.
Blesma - The British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association provides support and care for amputees and other disabled ex service personnel.
The Limbless Association - information, advice and support for people of all ages who are without one or more limbs. Campaigns, news, surveys, products database and sports information.
Disability Action Yorkshire - Information on services to enable people to access fundamental opportunities such as work, education, personal care, leisure and holidays. Contact details and discussion forums.
The Elfrida Society - Working with people with moderate learning difficulties since 1919. Includes sections on arts, health, issues and events.
Capability Scotland - Disability organisation. Advice, campaigns, services and First Person magazine.
Northern Advisory Group on Disability - Charity offering information and advice on disability issues. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Alliance of Disability Advice and Information Providers (ADAIP) - Encouraging communication and representing common concerns at a national level. Background and contact details.
The Disabilities Trust - A charity trust involved with the personal care and rehabilitation housing for people with severe physical disabilities, brain injury and autism.
Directions Plus - Volunteer provided information service for disabled people and their carers who live or work in Cambridgeshire. Organisations, reports, publications and how to meet an adviser.
Afasic - UK charity representing children and young adults with communication impairments, promoting their inclusion in society, and supporting their parents and carers.
Regain - Charitable organisation dedicated to improving the independence of all British men and women who have become tetraplegic as a result of a competitive sports injury.
Lifeways - Not for profit provider of services, including supported living, respite and residential care, and community support for adults, children and families with special needs or disabilities.
British Services Disabilities - Governing UK bodies concerning disabilities plus web sites concerned with disabilities.
Camphill Communities - UK site of this international charity, which provides communities in which disabled people can live and work.
UK Disability Forum Women's Committee - National organisation of disabled women. News, information about the disability movement and resources about and for disabled women.
Deafblind UK - National charity providing support services to, and campaigning on behalf of, deafblind adults and their carers.
Lincolnshire Association of People with Disabilities - Pan disability county organisation led by disabled people, involved in the integration of disabled people into the Lincs community.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Organisations Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken 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 Organisations Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Organisations Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Organisations Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Organisations Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Organisations "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Organisations There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Organisations The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Organisations We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Organisations 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 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Organisations Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke "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) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Organisations Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Organisations Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Organisations Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Organisations "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Organisations The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Organisations Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Organisations The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Organisations "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) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Organisations If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Organisations The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken 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 Organisations
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