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Letter "R" » retarding
«My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.»
Author: Alicia Silverstone
(Actress)
| Keywords:
boyfriend, lines, monkey, princess, princesses, retard, retarding
«Cigarettes dull the faculties, stunt and retard the physical development, unsettle the mind, and rob the persistent user of will power and the ability to concentrate»
Author: Dick Merriewell
| Keywords:
cigarettes, concentrate, faculties, persistent, physical ability, retard, retarding, rob, stunt, stunted, stunting, unsettle, unsettled, unsettles, unsettling, user
«The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.»
Author: Lester B. Pearson
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
giants, grim, precocious, prepare for, pygmies, Pygmy, retard, retarded, retarding
«The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it»
Author: Matilda Joslyn Gage
| Keywords:
advancing, History of Christianity, retard, retarding, student
«The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
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«AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
an island, Australia, commercial, Continent, dispute, geographer, geographers, industrial, in the south, island, lying-in, retard, retarded, retarding, South, South Sea, the South, unfortunate, unspeakably
«My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
Grown up, intellectual development, retard, retarded, retarding, space and time
«Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what well tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!»
Author: Bill Hicks
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
American government, bang, bangs, channels, congratulate, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, figured, fucking, gladiator, gladiators, go back, Here is, Land of the Free, pituitary, retard, retarding, shut up, skulls, The Land, The Skull, transpire, transpired
«Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
knowable, retard, retarded, retarding
«A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity»
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