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• How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Color, Language

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• I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hurt, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Writing, Speech, Abbreviations

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• The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Healthy, Encounters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.

  Diana Palmer

  Beautiful, Moments, Awe

  Diana Palmer (1997). “The Patient Nurse”, Harlequin Books

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• Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

  Johnny Carson

  Use, Littles, Comedy

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• Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

  George Farquhar

  Funny, Humorous, Expression

  'The Constant Couple' (1699) act 5, sc. 3

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• I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Fire, Mind

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

  Dee Snider

  Believe, Christianity

  Dee Snider (2012). “Shut Up and Give Me the Mic”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

  L. Tom Perry

  Commitment, Vocabulary, Practice

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee". L. Tom Perry's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. August 1986.

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• I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

  Mark Twain

  House, Taxes, Tax Day

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.127, University of Missouri Press

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• Look may be that everything is right, it is always best to have an inspection before marching. To forget a screw, if you have a loose one, and only discover your loss when you are miles from home and the view before you is "perfect", is to promote, possibly suicide, certainly profanity.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Suicide, Home, Loss

  Henry Peach Robinson (2010). “Letters on Landscape Photography”, p.30, Hol Art Books

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• Talk in order that I may see you.

  Socrates

  Order, May

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• One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Names, Sin

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  School, Use, Patterns

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• One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name of Deity is enjoined in holy writ. Jesus made this clear when teaching His disciples to pray. He said, addressing the Father, "Hallowed be thy name: (see Matthew 6:9). Blaspheming the name of God separates man from his Creator."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Jesus, Father

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Wicked, Quality, Language

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• Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, America, Violence

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• I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

  Bill Cosby

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• I think the Democrat Party is taking its cue from the media. When the media has a narrative, whether it's the use of profanity, the Democratic Party follows it.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Party, Thinking, Democratic

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

  Sheldon Harnick

  Curious, Used, Obscenity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.

  Ursula Vernon

  Book, Kids, Thinking

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• Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

  Bill Cosby

  Unique, Misunderstood, Use

  "Bill Cosby sounds like less of a prude now" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2007.

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• I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Black, Enemy, Desire

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• I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up here. But LA is cool. Its more like a big office. Its work and you work, and you're meetin' people all the time, but its more like acquaintances than friends and stuff.I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

  Chris Tucker

  Home, Cutting, Thinking

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