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Epilepsy Links

Enlighten - Registered charity operating in Edinburgh to support people directly or indirectly affected by epilepsy. Includes details of their services, training and education activities.

Epilepsy Connections - A community-based support to people living with epilepsy in the Greater Glasgow area, offering information, education, befriending and support services.

Epilepsy West Lothian - Offers information about the condition, the services and support they offer, and their fundraising.

Joint Epilepsy Council - National umbrella body enabling its member organisations to work together for the benefit of people with epilepsy. Information about activities, grants and bursaries, and their newsletter.

Mersey Region Epilepsy Association - An independent charity improving the quality of life for people with epilepsy and their families across Merseyside and Cheshire. Details of services and social activities.

The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE) - Provides specialist services for young people with epilepsy in the UK. Information and advice about the condition and includes details of the National Assessment Centre, St Piers School, and their Further Education College.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Epilepsy Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Epilepsy "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN 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 Epilepsy I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Epilepsy "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George 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 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Epilepsy There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Epilepsy The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy 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, God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Epilepsy The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Epilepsy "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Epilepsy If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Epilepsy We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th "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) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Epilepsy You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Epilepsy Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Epilepsy "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "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) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Epilepsy "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Epilepsy There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had May you never leave your marriage alive. Epilepsy "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Epilepsy Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Epilepsy If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Epilepsy Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Epilepsy Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Epilepsy Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Epilepsy
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