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Access2go - Information on access solutions, facilities and equipment that can be used by designers, developers and service providers to enhance independence for people with disabilities. Includes service delivery and building provisions to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act.

Centre for Accessible Environments - Information and training body on the accessibility of the built environment for disabled people.

Sensory Trust. - Advice on inclusive design for public spaces. Projects, examples, publications, services and newsletter.

Access4Fitness - Helping Disabled People Access Fitness Centres - Providing information for disabled people, gyms, fitness centres, and the fitness industry about the creation of an inclusive environment in British fitness.

The Access Association - Supports access professionals by networking and exchanging knowledge and experience. News, activities and regional associations.

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(John Keats) Universal Design Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) 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 The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Universal Design A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Marriage is a rest period between romances. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Universal Design "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Universal Design Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Universal Design Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell 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 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Universal Design 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 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Universal Design "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Universal Design What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Universal Design A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Universal Design Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Universal Design Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Universal Design "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Universal Design The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone Universal Design We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Universal Design "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess 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 Universal Design Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Universal Design Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Universal Design Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Universal Design My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards You have a cough? 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