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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.


George Washington


#cursing #despises #detests #every #foolish

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.


Ernest Hemingway


#book #come #consider #could #hope

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.


Theodor Adorno


#be different #different #into #itself #omnipotent

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.


Lady Gaga


#crowds #front #horrible #huge #i

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.


Desiderius Erasmus


#got #nature #nothing #nowadays #out

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.


Thomas Hobbes


#blame #clean #grave #holy #light

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.


Justin Winsor


#august #blunder #character #discovery #hardly

War is a profane thing.


Norman Schwarzkopf


#thing #war

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.


James Payn


#allowances #am #apt #aware #certain






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