Findings:

• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• Things never were what they used to be
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• Ain't what I'm gonna be, ain't what I wanna be, but lord thank you I ain't what I used to be.
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• What I used to be/Will pass away, and then you'll see/That all I want now/Is happiness for you and me
• That's a valid point, but right now we're focusing on...
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• I used to be bulimic
• You used to be a substantial woman
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
• The IRT That Used To Be
• I used to be racist
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• Recessive traits aren't what they used to be
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• but wherever i go i'll be looking for you
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• what will the internet be like five hundred years from now?
• We rode around the town late in the evening counting the streetlights to be sure all were burning
• now, when it's nearly impossible to get lost and twice as impossible not to be found
• I used to be a constitutional literalist.
• If language were liquid, it would be rushing in
• If you loved her, you'd be home by now
• How the Internet came to be: On use by other networks
• The MTA That Used To Be
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• We used to be more in sync
• Dogs can be used for detecting mold in houses
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• Sometimes friendships were meant to be destroyed
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• If anything were different, everything would be different
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• But what kind of violence would not be natural? Is not cruelty natural?
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• Sometimes in the quiet spaces between the sheets we forget who we each used to be
• We're supposed to be gone. We're a universe of ghosts.
• But we should not be afraid. How else will we discover the answers?
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• Look now. We won't be able to see this again.
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• if everyone were 10% more good, there would be a 90% reduction in evil
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• Can my nodes be used against me in a court of law?
• The increase of entropy ain't what it used to be
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• Really quick (I really can't be bothered to cook now) dinners
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• The IND That Used To Be
• I used to be that girl.
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• The Lines That Used To Be
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• Anything you say can and will be used against you. (e2poll)
• Your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device
• We'd all be better off if shaking hands were making love, and children were found in the cabbage patch.
• Or at least it used to be
• Where we're headed, you'll be looking backwards
• The zombie revolution will not be televised. But it will be tweeted.
• Please tell me it will all be okay.
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Unloved, yeah. But I'd rather be cursed than poisoned.
• The proper temperature can be reached through the use of heaters
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• for now this is the best that can be done
• a pile of dust where a fun girl used to be
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• If you can't be used, you're useless.
• but you wanna be bad
• Laugh now, because tomorrow I will be ten stories tall and I could just step on you if I want
• If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
• Bragging about a high IQ is way worse than bragging about having a large dick. The latter can at least be demonstrably used for something and be put to good use.
• a garden where a girl used to be
 
• If I were Twenty-One I would be happy
• Hitchhiking used to be so much fun
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• Where the Bridge Used to Be
• you won't be more gone than you are now
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• Each thing she learned became part of herself, to be used over and over in new adventures
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• Nostalgia ain't what it used to be
• not as funny as it used to be
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• If she were an insect, she'd be a moth in search of a flame
• Things I would be interested in seeing used in a literary context
• The mailbomb from the Christian Fundamentalists I pissed off should be here any day now
• Now this is the way the Internet is supposed to be!
• grumbling dissertation on how everything would be much better if it all were to explode
• If I can just get Mike to the 24-hour Whipper-Snapper, I will be okay.
• Oh be a fine girl kiss me right now sweetheart
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Father, can I be the dawn now?
• Now he can be loved. Now he is no more.
• In the future, hairstyles will be just like they are now
• If you lived here, you'd be home now
• If there were a slight, let it be fulsome
• The BMT That Used To Be
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• Starving in the greenhouse
• I used to be a carpenter
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• Microsoft's ActiveX idea, it must now be conceded, is a bad thing.
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• we used to be punk
• There is a space between your shoulders where your wings used to be
• Hot pursuit
• On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
• Reasons why I am ecstatic to be alive right now
• Be Here Now
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• The back of the cereal box isn't what it used to be
• Speed limits were made to be broken
• For Nicholas, wherever he might be now
• Open source cars would be doing 200 mpg by now
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Now It Can Be Told: Devo At The Palace 12/9/88
• I met her today, the girl I used to be
• It is not known why a goose would be used in this manner
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• I figured things would be okay once the werewolf started to cry
• Men are designed to be good hunters, but it's women who are born killers
• Would you take your shoes back now, i think I know what it is like to be you.
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• Although you are right, you were wrong to be confident
• if i'm right, you'll be here to read this any day now
• Romantic as in 19th century German aesthetics, not what mommy says daddy used to be.
• If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
• It's better to be alone than to wish you were
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• Today will be difficult. But tomorrow, good riding.
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• If you were a vegetable, what kind of vegetable would you be? (registry)
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters

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