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«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)
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War
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giants, grim, precocious, prepare for, pygmies, Pygmy, retard, retarded, retarding
«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)
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adopted, apt, contemporaries, dependent, dependent on, fare, fared, fares, faring, Frost, frosted, frosting, frosts, if not, inherent, injured, irrespective, lured, lures, luring, merit, practical, retard, retarded, retarding, sprout, sprouting, succeeding, The Contemporary, timely
«I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.»
Author: Leonardo DiCaprio
(Actor)
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deform, deformed, deforms, jumping, pretending, retarded
«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)
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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
«Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among»
Author: Alfred Adler
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Neurosis
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comparatively, egocentric, inactive, logical, Personal development, regularly, retarded, superiority
«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)
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Time
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Grown up, intellectual development, retard, retarded, retarding, space and time
«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)
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knowable, retard, retarded, retarding
«We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.»
Author: Kurt Cobain
(Musician, Singer)
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amazed, feedback, guitars, musically, on purpose, professionalism, record, retard, retarded, retarding, rhythmically, tune