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• No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Technology, Opportunity, Choices

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

  Elayne Boosler

  Men, Expectations, Done

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• Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.

  Fanny Brice

  Deceitful, Blank

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• It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sex, Dirty, Doe

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• Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Thinking, Three, Wonderful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Naughty, Kind, Shows

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

  Drake

  Want, Able, Enjoy

  HipHop Canada Interview, July 12, 2006.

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• I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

  Jason Gann

  Smoking, Actors, Cigarette

  Source: collider.com

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• I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

  Hutch Harris

  Song, Feelings, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When President [Barack] Obama was sworn in on the steps of Capitol, he asked for swift, bold action now for jobs and education for the 21st Century, a list, an agenda. One week and one day from that swearing in, the House passed the ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Recovery, House

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Son, Christendom

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [108]

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• When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. My friend Duane was there, raising his right hand, swearing to help prevent forest fires. He told me, "Mitchell, Smokey is way more intense in person!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Wheels

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Video, December 2006.

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• Night to night, doing the clubs is a lot of fun too because you have a lot more freedom and you don't have to worry about swearing or going off the script or going long or going short. If you bomb, only a handful of people see it. On TV, a lot of people see it.

  Gary Gulman

  Fun, Night, Long

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• There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

  John Ratzenberger

  People, Different, Would Be

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• Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart people, and you're all well-read and well-educated and the humor is really erudite. And then over the course of the year, after the production schedule grinds you down, it is just so mean and stupid.

  Maria Semple

  Smart, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• You come out into the world after a season of TV and you're just swearing and saying mean things to people and they're looking at you like, Who are you? And oh yeah, you think, I have to reacclimate to the way people genuinely treat each other.

  Maria Semple

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They work as this outburst of incoherent anger. I've found ways to write around swearing that are much more effective, rather than going for what someone really would say.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Opportunity, Enjoy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.

  Robert Greene

  Jealousy, Sweet, Love Is

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works of Robert Greene & George Peele: with memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.311

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• What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

  Max Stirner

  Party, What Matters, Flags

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.210, Cambridge University Press

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• If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

  Brigham Young

  Lying, Men, Names

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.275

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• Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Military, Two

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 8, (p. 204), 1969.

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• I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

  Hugh Jackman

  Thinking, May, Film

  "Hugh Jackman Talks Reuniting with Bryan Singer, Battling Sentinels, How Long He’ll Play Wolverine, and More on the Set of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2014.

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• We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Fire, Rising

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

  Jack London

  Needs, Ships, Knows

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