Let's face it, we became ingrown, clannish, and retarded. Cut off from the mainstream of humanity, we came to believe that pink is... "flesh-color", that mayonnaise is a nutrient, and that Barry Manilow is a musician.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the heroine of a romance was to traverse through countries where the castle of giants rise to her view, through gloomy forests ...amongst the dens of savage beasts [where] she is in danger of being torn and devoured [or] retarded in her flight by puzzling mazes, the reader's fears will be alarmed for her safety.... But the puzzling mazes into which we shall throw our heroine are the perverse interpretations made upon her words; the lions, tigers, and giants from which we endeavor to rescue her are the spiteful and malicious tongues of her enemies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellec...tual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them--as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded... by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I began to realize that it was bigotry of the worst kind to say that it's better to be dead than to be born retarded or blind or w...ithout a limb. It's a value judgment you're making about someone's life, based on their degree of perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »