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Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.

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The caller said he wished to “send a message” that “BLM is a bunch of retards.”

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History suggests, in fact, that Euro-American liberal democracies have played a significant role in retarding democratic progress elsewhere.

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“What are you two retards doing over there?”

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Prior Vital Dufour, who was ordained Cardinal of the Catholic church by Pope Clement in 1313, once listed 40 of the virtues of Armagnac including: "It renders man joyous, preserves youth and retards senility."

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