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• From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

  John Kricfalusi

  School, Artist, Years

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• The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Civilization, Suffering

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• Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

  Albert Bandura

  Development, May, Self Efficacy

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• 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.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Class, Long

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Imagination, Doubt

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.77

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• The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.

  Aldo Leopold

  Names, Grace, Development

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Hurt, People, Chance

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• We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.

  Henry Clay

  Reflection, President, Able

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Elder Statesman, January 1, 1844-June 29, 1852”, p.553, University Press of Kentucky

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

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Growth, Divinity

  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

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• The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

  C. L. R. James

  Class, Organization, Political

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• A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Moving, Body, Retarded

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.116, University of Chicago Press

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• I collect things that just look retarded.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Looks, Retarded

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Steve Earle

  Lakes, Hands, Sea

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• Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

  Katherine Heigl

  Guy, Kind, Retarded

  "Katherine Heigl's Dangerous Curves". Maxim Interview, www.tvguide.com. May 24, 2000.

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• Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

  Marc Maron

  Motherhood, Surveillance, Morality

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• The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

  Karl Radek

  Eugenics, Development, Socialism

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• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Clever, War

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955

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• We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

  Chaim Weizmann

  World, Helping, You Like It

  Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

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• Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Knowledge, Race, Progress

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218

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• The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

  James Cash Penney

  Successful, Progress, Cooperation

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• Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.

  Maria Parloa

  Drinking, Coffee, Tea

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