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• Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.

  Red Skelton

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

  Philip Wollen

  Four, Letters, Cages

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• I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

  Candace Pert

  Science, Soul, Religion

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• The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Dirty, Kids, Four

  Abbie Hoffman (1969). “Woodstock nation: a talk-rock album”

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• Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

  Lenny Bruce

  Struggle, Shelter, Four

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.

  Chris Hayes

  Toxic, Four, Letters

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem.
  How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Spiritual, Heart, Frustrated

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• There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

  Tory Burch

  Ambition, Four, Letters

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• All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

  Dionne Warwick

  Dirty, Naughty, Peers

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• Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Funny, Change, Humorous

  "Anything Goes" (song) (1934)

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• I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fire, Body, Four

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• Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

  Alberto Manguel

  Funny, Humor, Snow

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

  Cole Porter

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Kids, Acoustics, Four

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• I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Court Judges, Things In Life

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• The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Writing, Four

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• Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

  Dorothy Parker

  Baby, Looks, Four

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• It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

  Tom Cruise

  Would Be, Four, Letters

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• People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

  Tim Conway

  Knowing, People, Sitting

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• Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

  Fred Rogers

  Pain, Zoom, Tape

  "The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember".

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• The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

  Paul Krassner

  Humor, Sarcasm, Views

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  Powerful, Nice, Four

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• My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Two, Promise

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• Just another four-letter word.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Four, Letters

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• Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

  Thomas Sowell

  Love, Sex, Four

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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