From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word "stammer." ...I can't say it myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These studies which stimulate the young, divert the old, are an ornament in prosperity and a refuge and comfort in adversity; they... delight us at home, are no impediment in public life, keep us company at night, in our travels, and whenever we retire to the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking i...n tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train a...way all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the c...louds and the rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance, the man without impediment, who sees and handles that which others dre...am of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I note what you say of the late disturbances in your College. These dissensions are a great affliction on the American schools, an...d a principal impediment to education in this country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphem...ism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »