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• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• It has become the time of evening when people sit on their porches
• the Men Behind the Curtain are to a large extent at the mercy of their own illusions
• When over 95% of its people endure unspeakable torture daily, Planet Earth is officially known as a prison
• Thought experiment on a boring Tuesday (or, When the world lasted 20 minutes)
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• When I growl, the sound echoes like thunder all through the valleys and woodlands, and children tremble with fear, and women cover their heads with their aprons, and big men run and hide.
• Important people with busy schedules need you to become their servants
• I remember, back in the day, when the Other Users list never exceeded 19
• when people become strangers
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• Working people are never allowed to become rich in the United States
• What people really mean when they say "Justice for X"
• Children are people readers and they know when you are fiction
• this hunger in me, it never ends. I feed it every night when I dream
• When's the last time you cared about Lenny Kravitz? A) 1991 B) never C) Who?
• never stop trying to capture the uncapturable. it helps us all.
• When people say destroying a work of art is good
• Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• Always talk to dead people when you can. Always.
• When in Rome, Never Boil
• Never frown; you never know when someone's falling in love with your smile.
• it's there for all to see, and yet some people never see it
• I never dreamed I'd need so many people
• Why engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people
• Except When To Do So Would Injure Them Or Others
• How to get Apache to tell your visitors when files have moved or been deleted
• Reading ahead in comic calendars
• When you kill people they die
• When life gives you lemons, suck on them. Seriously, lemons taste awesome.
• Where people go when people die
• Very emotional people are either psychotic or sincere
• People who don't smoke will never die
• How can I talk about love when the bacon is burned and the house is an absolute mess and the children are screaming their heads off and I'm going to miss my bus?
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• Look around for the people doing the good work, follow their lead, stay calm.
• A tight circle of like-minded people, each with hands on the genitals of their neighbor
• When each had their own personal anthem
• Kissing is when two people taste each other tasting each other
• Never drink or cook with hot tap water
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• Asking random people for wisdom
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• Never install PCI cards when the power supply is on
• When words fail me, music helps. I can at least sing along.
• mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• Some people want to never feel anything bad, and call that happiness
• For future reference, when in eternity or insanity; dreams I would like to have
• Why guys care if their partner spits or swallows
• Sealing wax color code, or: Stop asking me what the letter says damn you
• Most of these things I've never seen in real life. Only on screens. Or Elsewhere. I'd die without it.
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• when you make the worst mistakes is when you need the most help
• How to herd people in public
• In Defense of Minor Attracted People or I Think it's Genocide
• Dead links in writeups
• either only mean people live that long, or mean lives make mean people
• You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
• People who don't capitalize their I's
• The quality of relationships with people when you're sick
• I am clothed when other people go almost naked through the frozen cities in winter
• How to get people to clean up their core dumps
• Expecting your wedding to be the happiest day of your life
• Inability to decide on what your morals and values should be
• Also, when I am angry, my eyes flash fire, whether I growl or not.
• You're never around when I need you
• Please help us recover your nodes by linking their titles below
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
• People who carp about their jobs
• people on the bottom-side of the world wet their hair with tears
• I don't mind it when authors take their time
• we are fed violence and love is censored, and people are shocked when violence is all we know
• Parents who force their children to eat when they're not hungry
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• Why dogs flinch when you stroke their heads
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• 2D people can only see the inside of their head.
• Too many people say nothing when they mean "I love you"
• When the dead poets mobilize, they'll paint your picture on their planes
• Technology can help YOU win Friends and Influence People!
• When the Ram and the Pig Went to the Forest to Live on Their Own
• When all you want is help, and all you receive is pain
• What really happens when you call the help desk
• I used to fly like peter pan, all the children flew when I touched their hands
• When silence between two people is comfortable
• Now or Never
• Help people who need help
• You sad cookie, you CARE more about filthy rich pretty people you'll never meet
• But I'm a good person! Yeah great you wanna help me with this or what?
• To tell the truth I am never happier than when I am a kangaroo
• Using a command line
• Never coin a phrase if you can help it
• After today, for two people, the world will never be the same
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you
• Never do card tricks for the people you play poker with
• You can never be too rich or too thin
• Summer never answers when you call
• How high tech app helps people engage with birds
• When you're born with duckweed in your hair, it never washes out
• It never rains when you want it to, many lawns under the deluge
• When visiting Atlanta, never use its public transportation
• Video, or it never happened.
• war trophies for people who have never been to war
• Never Yawn or Say A Commonplace Thing
• when god speaks, it is never one-sided
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• This moment will never come again. Would you rather enjoy it or complain about it?
• Do we forgive our fathers in their time or in our time?
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• When writers use Latin
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• when i get out i'll come and find you cause you're my other half i never told you that
• I'll never forget you, you shiny flying people
• When at last I found no further traces of the living or the dead, then I stopped.
• When or Not, Make it Great
• Aristotle's Lost Library, Medieval Andalusia & Chinese Paper, or How Europe Learned to Learn Again and Why the Renaissance Happened When & Where It Did
• Adventures in Google Translate, or: This is why you pay real people to translate things
• there are no good or bad people
• Know your pets
• when you're done, you can let her die if that's what you want. Or you can wake her.
• Deal with the flames on their terms or yours
• Late-night rally driving on the beach, or: Run like Hell when the cops come
• Things people put up their butts
• Capitalize, please
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• Put That Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me
• Her hair, tangled
• Supporting your views on modern social dynamics by citing anthropology
• Low taxes help rich people
• Ever seen two people talking to each other in their sleep?
• When people say "All-American", they seldom mean me.
• People's secrets show in their eyes
• When people ask "Where are you from?" I have to think for a minute
• When children become people
• What people talk about when they can't think of anything to talk about
• Open letter from Saddam Hussein to the American peoples and the western peoples and their gov'ts
• When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?"
• Going by the script when talking to people
• Flaunting your sexuality
• I want to be a whale when I grow up. Or a squid.
• Everything Quest: You kids stop your fighting or I will turn this car around so help me God
• People don't flail when they die
• So many people have come and gone, their faces fade as the years go by
• The sand people ride in single file to hide their numbers
• Why do people vote against their interests?
• A lie only hurts when it's told by people you care about
• Discovering personalities by watching people with their dogs
• Too many people say "I love you" when they mean "I like you"
• Right-wing doesn't automatically mean racist
• Who do you call for help when all your friends are dead?
• Appeal to Consequences
• Appeal to Popularity
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• New York State Court of Appeals
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• I Keep Asking
• Asking good questions
• How it is that we stop asking questions
• Sometimes, my paranoia overtakes me and I find myself asking, "IS ONE OF THE E2 EDITORS OUT TO GET ME!?"
• Song for the Asking (user)
• Things you told me when we were in love
• Quick Help
• I'm trying to see little old ladies as versions of my mom; it helps me be a better person
• Where to go for help with punctuation
• cry for help
• unpaid help desk
• Where to get help with Linux
• You dropped that name, let me help you pick it up
• computer science homework help
• god help me

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