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All kinds of wildlife carry the crazy thing, ... We routinely vaccinate dogs, cattle and swine for it.

- Leon Russell

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

- Edward Albee

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

- Anthony Bartolo

OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell`s army exorcised a soldier`s obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.

- Ambrose Bierce