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  • Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

    David Hume (1826). “The history of England: From the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution of 1688 : To which is prefixed a short account of his life, written by himself”, p.187
  • Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

    Lakes   Hands   Sea  
  • If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.

    Past   Air   Years  
  • Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

  • Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

    Learning   Science   Mind  
  • I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

    Funny   School   Hands  
  • I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson – who I have nothing against, but I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I’ve every learned to prove, like, ‘Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.’ I don’t want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard – but I do. And part of it is my own fault.

    "Megan Fox Talks Bisexuality for Guys, Robert Pattinson for Ladies" by Jennifer Cody, www.eonline.com. May 11, 2009.
  • Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

    Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
  • I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

    Thinking   Brain   Retard  
  • Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.

    Regret   Science   Men  
  • The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.

    Mean   Class   Long  
    Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.130, Courier Corporation
  • I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

    twitter.com. October 22, 2012.
  • You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.

    Crazy   America   People  
  • One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.

    Morning   Men   Hands  
  • You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

    Gay   People   Acting  
  • No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

    Death   Kings   Moments  
    John Dryden, “Palamon And Arcite; Or The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book Ii.”
  • Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

    Real   Maturity   Doe  
  • Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

    Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283
  • I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  • The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

    Strong   Fighting   Years  
    Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group
  • A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

    Moving   Body   Retarded  
    Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.116, University of Chicago Press
  • The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

    Acting   Way   Retarded  
  • [I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.

    Taken   Church   Steps  
  • Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

    Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”
  • The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

  • Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

    Humble   Soul   Genius  
  • Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

  • If you're a racist, right now, in 2011... You just look like a retard, man.

    Men   Racism   Looks  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

  • The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

    Business   Men   Play  
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