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• God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

  Christopher Hitchens

  God, Men, Civilization

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• Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Writing, Way, Spelling

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2010

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• The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

  Warren Ellis

  Running, Space Flight, Way

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• Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  New York, Plight, Definitions

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• When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"

  Harold S. Kushner

  Religious, Children, Community

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• If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

  Tom Regan

  Dog, Baby, Animal

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• Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Should Have, Douchebags, Hey

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• Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

  Maureen Johnson

  Boys, Shy, Strange

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• Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

  Charles Lapworth

  Time, Science, Men

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• What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Pawns, Weak, Difficult

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• What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

  Rachel Gibson

  Thinking, Fishing, Term

  Rachel Gibson (2010). “Nothing But Trouble”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Intelligent, Religion, Criticism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• With a haircut like that and a face like that, it looks like Billy Ray Cyrus went and had sex with a retarded hyena.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Sex, Wwe, Rays

  "Line-o-rama: The Rock Says" By Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. July 2, 2009.

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• They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.

  Lionel

  Pain, Advice, Contemplating

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• The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.

  Oliver Sacks

  Drama, Simple, Narrative

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Years, Linux, Research

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• Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who felt the anguish of the poor. He was an orator of excellence who spoke for the voiceless. He was a son of Harvard who reached out to the sons and daughters of Appalachia. He was a man of special grace who had a special care for the retarded and handicapped. He was a hero of war who fought hardest for peace. He said and proved in word and deed that one man can make a difference.

  Edward Kennedy

  Daughter, War, Hero

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• My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

  Kid Koala

  Kids, Intelligent, Thinking

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• There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

  Andy Milonakis

  Art, Want, Sides

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Firsts, Chemistry

  1969 The Andromeda Strain.

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• I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon as “exceptional” begins to mean anything to anyone they’ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. “Exceptional” refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I’ve been exceptional.

  Daniel Keyes

  Mean, Expression, Ideas

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Play, People

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• Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, America, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America

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• The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

  Ben Hecht

  People, Mind, Eruption

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Roaches, Reptiles

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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