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Blackburn and District Blind Society - A registered charity for the visually impaired and blind. Includes information about their activities, links and contact details.
The Blind Business Association Charitable Trust - Promote self-employment for Visually Impaired People (VIP's) in the UK, by offering grants for equipment, education and training. Information about their activities, policies, and contact details.
Blind Business Association Ltd - Provides a forum for mutual support of people in the UK who are blind or partially sighted and in self-employment. Includes information on their activities, newsletter, and contact details.
Blindcare - A partnership of nine UK charities for the blind and partially sighted. Main purpose of the organisation is fund-raising. Offers advice on how to save tax through tax free payroll giving.
Cornwall Blind Association - Offers a range of services for the blind and visually impaired in the county. Information about their Sight Centre, activities, volunteer opportunities, and contact details.
Derbyshire Association for the Blind - Offers a range of services to the visually impaired and blind in the county. Includes useful information, and details of services and volunteer opportunities.
Electronic Aids for the Blind (EAB) - Charity helping people with impaired vision to access the written word through specialised technology. Details of their services, supplying electronic equipment and support.
Fight for Sight - Information about the work and fundraising efforts of charity supporting research into blindness.
Gloucestershire County Association for the Blind Web Site - Offer a resource and training centre, community visiting, and a range of other services for the blind and visually impaired. Includes newsletter, and contact details.
Hampshire Association for the Care of the Blind - Provides care and support to people with a visual impairment, using volunteers and a few staff. Information about their services, activities, history, volunteer opportunities, and contact details.
Kent Association for the Blind - Information about the services provided by this local charity. Contains some useful information about common diseases affecting vision and some tips on how to make the most of remaining vision.
National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom - An organisation of blind and partially sighted people campaigning for better service provision and an enhanced quality of life. Includes details of publications and activities.
Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind - Provides a range of services for the blind and visually impaired, including residential accommodation for the elderly, community visiting, education and recreation services. Contact details.
Ox Eyes - Oxford Association for the Blind offers a range of services for the visually impaired community. Information about their activities, newsletter, links, and contact details.
Royal London Society for the Blind - National and international provider of education, training, employment opportunities, and support for people who are visually impaired. Information about their services, structure and history.
SeeAbility - Works with adults who are visually impaired and have other disabilities (eg learning disability, physical disability, head injury , mental health difficulties ) to explore their potential, develop skills/independence and enhance the quality of their lives.
Thomas Pocklington Trust - UK charity providing housing, care and support services for people with sight loss. Information about services, eye conditions, volunteer opportunities, and branch network.
Vista - Offer services and support to the blind and visually impaired in Leicestershire and Rutland. Information about their activities, events, newsletter, and staff.
Wales Council for the Blind - Independent umbrella organisation promoting the welfare of blind and partially sighted people and the prevention of blindness. Information about membership, activities, and their Manifesto.
Henshaws Society for Blind People - Provider of services for visually impaired people across the North of England. Training, residential, support and care services, Henshaws College of Further Education in Harrogate, an Arts Centre and a sensory garden.
Action for Blind People - Charity which enables blind and partially sighted people to gain equal opportunities in every aspect of their lives. Information, advice and details of current fundraising activities.
Blind in Business - A UK charity providing IT, technology training and teaching resources to help visually impaired or blind people.
The Royal Blind Asylum and School - Charity providing for the education, training, employment, care and welfare of blind and visually impaired people in Scotland. Annual report and information on their activities.
HERIB - Hull and East Riding Institute for the Blind - Provides outings, support, resources and help for visually impaired people in the local area.
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) - National UK charity providing a range of information for blind or partially sighted people.
St Dunstan's - Charity providing training and rehabilitation to blind ex-service men and women. Services, news and events.
Wiltshire Blind Association - Registered charity serving those who are blind and partially sighted in the area. Services, newsletter and local resources. Requires Flash.
Association of Blind Piano Tuners - Serves blind and partially sighted piano tuners worldwide. Site provides information including mission statement, aims, member list and membership benefits.
Look - The National Federation of Families with Visually Impaired Children, originally formed to address the disparity in regional provision. News, family support, education, welfare benefits and specific eye conditions.
Vision 2020 UK - Facilitates collaboration and co-operation between organisations within the UK with a focus on visual impairment, and who operate on a national, regional or international basis.
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) 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 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Blindness and Visual Impairment The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Blindness and Visual Impairment A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison "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) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Blindness and Visual Impairment "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Blindness and Visual Impairment Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Blindness and Visual Impairment "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) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Blindness and Visual Impairment Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Blindness and Visual Impairment Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Blindness and Visual Impairment The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Blindness and Visual Impairment To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde 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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Blindness and Visual Impairment "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Blindness and Visual Impairment Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Blindness and Visual Impairment The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Blindness and Visual Impairment I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Blindness and Visual Impairment When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Blindness and Visual Impairment "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Blindness and Visual Impairment Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Blindness and Visual Impairment When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Blindness and Visual Impairment Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Blindness and Visual Impairment "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Blindness and Visual Impairment When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Blindness and Visual Impairment CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg 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 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Blindness and Visual Impairment
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