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• They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

  Gregory Corso

  Moving, Fall, Long Ago

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• I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Frustrated, Brain, Impatient

  "I've an overactive brain". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.

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• I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

  Dave Chappelle

  Country, Swear To God, Korea

  "After Dave Chappelle Hates On Hartford, Who's To Blame?". www.npr.org. September 6, 2013.

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• I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Hypocrite, Men, Long

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Broken Heart, Angel, Night

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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• Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Healing, Heart, Hands

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• It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Black And White, Play, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

  Keith Urban

  Taken, Kids, Vocabulary

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• I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod.

  Hoda Kotb

  Running, Mistake, Ipods

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• When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Next Day, Use

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• I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

  Bryan Adams

  Social Taboos, Underwear, Taboo

  Song: (I Wanna Be) Your Underwear, Album: 18 Til I Die, 1996

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• I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

  Elliott Smith

  Cities, People, Faces

  Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007

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• For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Romantic, Kissing, Talking

  Song: Crush On You, Album: The River, 1980

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• Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Air, Hands, Rock And Roll

  Song: Get The Picture

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• Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

  James Van Der Beek

  Morning, Dad, War

  James Van Der Beek @vanderjames, twitter.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

  Drew Barrymore

  Makeup, Thinking, Swear To God

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• Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Jealous, Guy

  Melody Carlson (2012). “The Jerk Magnet”, p.134, Revell

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• I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

  Danny Wallace

  Suggestions, Favors, Request

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• We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

  Malin Akerman

  Real, Home, People

  "Malin Akerman, The Awkward Girl Next Door". Interview with Gillian Monhey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

  Robin Williams

  Food, Cooking, Bread

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• Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Media, Years

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

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• I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

  Joan Van Ark

  Swear To God, Play, Want

  "The Joan Van Ark Exclusive Interview". Interview with Knots Landing Fan, www.knotslanding.net. June 21, 2018.

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• How your heart can possibly find a way to love and trust a man again proves that I've fallen in love with the bravest woman I've ever known. I know how much courage it took for you to allow me in after what your father did to you. And I swear I will spend every last breath thanking you for allowing yourself to love me. Thank you so much for loving me, Linden Sky Hope.

  Colleen Hoover

  Love, Father, Heart

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• A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Humorous, Delicacy

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.22

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• Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?

  Claire Morgan

  New Year, Night, Years

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