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“There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large”

George Carlin

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There are many words in English, but only a very small number are not allowed on TV. This shows how bad those few words must be since they are kept apart from so many others.

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