The Indications Are That Swearing Preceded The Development Of Cursing. That Is, Expletives, Maledictions, Exclamations, And Imprecations Of The Immediately Explosive Or Vituperative Kind Preceded The Speechmaking And Later Rituals Involved In The Deliberate Apportioning Of The Fate Of An Enemy. Swearing Of The Former Variety Is From The Lips Only, But The Latter Is From The Heart. Damn It! Is Not That Same As Damn You!

-Ashley Montagu

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The Indications Are That Swearing Preceded The

Ashley Montagu

The Indications Are That Swearing Preceded The Development Of Cursing. That Is, Expletives, Maledictions, Exclamations, And Imprecations Of The Immediately Explosive Or Vituperative Kind Preceded The Speechmaking And Later Rituals Involved In The Deliberate Apportioning Of The Fate Of An Enemy. Swearing Of The Former Variety Is From The Lips Only, But The Latter Is From The Heart. Damn It! Is Not That Same As Damn You!

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Heart

Fate

Damn You

Because Women Live Creatively, They Rarely Experience The Need To Depict Or Write About That Which To Them Is A Primary Experience And Which Men Know Only At A Second Remove. Women Create Naturally, Men Create Artificially.

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Men

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