Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

~ James Patterson

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How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone “reaping” than “killing”—and when one knows that death isn’t the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?

~ Neal Shusterman

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

~ Gore Vidal

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Nature tells the truth as it is, it has no euphemism

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.

~ Kathy Shaidle

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Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

~ Lenore Kandel

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She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

~ Bergen Evans

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