Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "First you do what you can, then you just do what you have to. Sometimes it's the other way around."

• Some days are magic, and I can do anything. The other days, I just have to wait, and hope it comes back.
• What to do with that insane amount of shaving cream you have just lying around
• What to do with insane amounts of insulation foam you have just lying around
• Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• Why some mammals have an aversion to water
• Shall I tell you stories of other stars: stars that you love, that deserve your love. Stars that do not disappoint, and disgust, and disgrace your love. Oh, I have hope they exist for your sake!
• why I do have to get so deep with people all the time just to gently let them down 2 weeks later
• Do your wings make a sound? Sometimes I swear I can hear them
• Just because you should do something doesn't mean you can
• God, do you think I can have a nephew this time?
• Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
• I have to get up early and do laundry so I can wear something nice to the weirdo sex club
• The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
• we can all just be around other people
• Sometimes I do things just to feel alive
• What you can do to protect yourself against bioterrorism
• What can you do with 6.5 million SUV tires?
• the summer can do little more than feed itself
• Adapting literary works for film and television
• Just Do It
• all we can do is keep moving forward
• IRC channels that have absolutely nothing to do with their names
• I can do shit with my legs
• Martyrdom, or why mowing a Dandelion is the best thing you can do for him
• What the FBI Can Do With Their Little
• Why do zebras have stripes?
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• Do you Know the Way To San José?
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• What do you need to transfer to say you have transferred your mind?
• Do not have sex with horses. Seriously, don't.
• The most perfect thing you can ever do
• Do female homosexuals have it easier than male homosexuals?
• No matter what you think, you can NOT do homework in bed
• Amazing what you can do with a paperclip and a snapped elastic band
• What Canada can do to improve U.N. peacekeeping capabilities
• If you can say something nice, do
• The Punk Meets the Godfather, Part One: Do My Converse look okay? And other preconceptions by a hippie kid
• I still have a lot of exploring to do
• I do it because it hurts, and then even that is over
• What to do if you have bad credit
• Why males have nipples
• Don't just do something, sit there.
• It's gone, aint nothing you can do about it now
• I'd love to stay and let you break my heart, but I have laundry to do
• Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• if i can just find the perfect way to say it
• Why people put quotes around words on signs
• if you do not fail, you have learned nothing
• We can do the sideways thinking that's needed to combat something which can literally eat your combat training.
• It's the Internet, I can do what I want
• What time do you call this, then?
• You can do anything you want to, as long as it's not important
• Do what you have to do
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• An Experiment you can do to see if your newspaper is indeed Liberally biased
• Do law-abiding citizens have the right to an opinion on criminal penalties?
• Since then, all I do
• Why Buddhist countries do not have the death penalty
• Making the Movies II Do the Photoplayers Have an Understudy?
• On the last day of 2004, we will do something in Portland. That thing is called a party. You can come.
• Why do I have to call ONLY ONE country "home?"
• That which I should have done I did not do
• What do you say to someone who has just had an abortion?
• Do we have to learn to think scientifically in order to find the truth?
• First Statement of Ti and Do
• Do you have honor for yourself?
• Damn, damn, damn: what did you have to go and do that for
• Say, lad, have you things to do?
• There is nothing the dead can do
• Do Unto Others
• So long Arthur Miller! Who do I have to look up to now?
• Can't speed up, can't slow down - all we can do is follow these damn dogs
• What do you mean people around here speak Spanish
• Do you have your heart on a lacerating javelin?
• All I can do
• Why respect knights, when my potions can do anything that you can?
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• Forming a bond with someone or something can be liberating in some ways. It can be limiting in other ways, until you unbind.
• If you have to cry, do it in the shower
• The Most Good You Can Do
• There is something we can do
• Ask Everything: Do I have the Swine Flu? (superdoc)
• Don't try to make the moment last. You can ruin it that way. Just learn to savor it and, when the time comes, learn how to let it go.
• What can a reed do but sway about and love?
• if a cycle can be broken, then it will have been worth it
• You can still be very hurtful when you do what's right.
• Snow Days vol. II: The Best That I Can Do
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• All you have to do is listen, and be ready.
• What dream did you rise on to know my soul the way you do?
• His socks do not have a smell, which is so courteous.
• There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
• Eskimos do NOT have 40 words for snow
• My God parted the sea; what can yours do?
• What Do You Care What Other People Think?
• sometimes bad ideas work just often enough to stick around
• Don't do that then!
• A reminder to drivers who do not have cruise control
• Kids aren't cute; they just do stupid things
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• I can do much better than this
• Why do we think we can give a score to our happiness?
• Laugh at yourself before others do
• What loneliness can do to you
• Why do girls only want to have "serious" relationships?
• Why do today what you can postpone until tomorrow?
• being mute can do a lot for an idiot
• You really have nothing to say, do you?
• Do it right the first time
• Laughter reaction to acting abusively
• What can you do this month that you couldn't do last month?
• What can I get for you? What do you need?
• You don't really drink beer in cans, do you?
• Do I have to watch my step at every turn?
• NODE OR DIE! Can you do any less?
• Reasons toilets swirl the way they do
• Ack! Do not cook this! I am just noding this in a state of shock!
• You do not have a right to not be offended
• 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
• How many genes do we (humans) have?
• Luckily, my hands do not have eyes.
• I can't do one-quarter of the things my father can
• Just when you get really good at something, you don't need to do it any more
• Do it the risky way, out in the open
• Know How, Can Do
• You can do anything
• Dis Yourself in '89 (Just Do It)
• You can have great armfuls of just such roses as these.
• Do not be surprised, I have always been your canvas, Argenis.
• Your home is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on a mortgage or other loan secured on it
• Why do we have to rebuild it every night?
• I can do it myself
• just because they never bothered to really do
• Or he'll just kick me in the face and scream abstract noises and dance around outside in his underwear and have sex with the neighbor's dog and try to fly by jumping off the toilet
• Do you have stairs in your house?
• You, standing
• twelve ways to do and be is enough for cats
• I can do stuff with my writeups (e2poll)
• A simple experiment that you can do at home to prove the possibility of global warming
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
• Do what you can as you do
• The drunker I am, the better I am at pool. Or is that the other way around?
• What do I have of my mother's?
• The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers
• The tattoo phenomenon
• What you should REALLY do when you have too many votes on your hands.
• How do you know if you have a sinus infection?
• Why do children have to die?
• How and why do we (humans) have culture?
• If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread
• Do you still want your first universe?
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be

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