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I'm positively aglow over how unhelpful Congress is when one party is refusing to do a d-mn thing because they think it's to their advantage to keep the public suffering so they can blame the party in control. 3 cheers for angry pouting ideologues!
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To continue the poker metaphor, we know they do not have the money so they d-mn straight better have the cards.
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When the others hesitated, Mr. Southworth, in his earnestness to carry out the scheme and unmindful of the company he was in, said: "Why, d-mn it to h-- l, Perrigo, you can do that much."
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When the others hesitated, Mr. Southworth, in his earnestness to carry out the scheme and unmindful of the company he was in, said: "Why, d-mn it to h-- l, Perrigo, you can do that much."
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Jack says, 'You lie, G-d d-mn you,' and draws his derringer.
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869
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The plain fact is that government costs far too d-mn much, and it has recently been in a (rerun) political environment that permits vast expenditures without regard to benefits, financed by borrowing from the unborn (who usually don't lobby too well).
Forbes.com: News Steve Denning 2011
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But while they were thus comfortably going on, the three unnatural brutes, their countrymen, in a mere bullying humour, insulted them by saying, 'the governor (meaning you) had given them a possession of the island, and d-mn 'em they should build no houses upon their ground, without paying rent.'
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) Daniel Defoe 1696
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Stop supporting the killers and stop blaming the rest of us that actually give a d-mn and are trying to do something about it!
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If only I could convince him that every d-mn article doesn't have to pertain to him.
Destructoid 2009
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And today these people will tell you their families never voted for no "d-mn" Democrat.
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