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• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• Being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
• This is how it appears on Wikipedia and they tend to be somewhat anal about grammar, so I'm trusting this is correct
• A lie only hurts when it's told by people you care about
• 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!
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• I don't know who Amber is, but she's got a stalker
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• 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.
• I know I'm not very good at this. I don't want to be better.
• The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• So many were frozen, but you we kept warm
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• I would kiss you, but I don't know how to kiss
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• we are learning how not to forget, but we still don't know what's true
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• If you don't know how to make a mu, you have no business measuring quantities that small.
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• You want to reassure her, but you don't know where to start
• Do you know what it is like to be alone among so many?
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• I really miss the woman who told me that people don't like me
• Being a dickhead
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• How to assassinate a third world despot with only a butt plug and a litre of raspberry coulis
• We tend to judge people only on what we perceive them to be
• Everything you ever wanted to know about theatre tech, but were afraid to ask
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• It’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• 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.
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• I didn't know how to keep it but I couldn't throw it away.
• How it feels to be interviewed (when you know the answers)
• We once played this same game, but with only our words
• As a side effect of the server move, this list isn't gettin cleared automatically, so many people listed aren't actually online. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
• Among strangers who will say so many things to fill our ears
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• The Lord of the Rings 1/2: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Middle-earth But Were Afraid to Produce
• I don't Daylog but I'm Daylogging
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• It will only make our insides burn until we are nothing but ash.
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• Men are designed to be good hunters, but it's women who are born killers
• I'm happy but you don't like me
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Maybe you were inherently complicated, maybe you've been complicated over the years, but know that you are complicated.
• 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.
• one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
• I don't think we're old enough to know if we're alcoholics at our age
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• The difference between reply and reply to all
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• When life gives you lemons, suck on them. Seriously, lemons taste awesome.
• When you have a trip planned, but don't go, you need to cancel your reservations
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
• I don't know what I don't know, so how do I know what to ask?
• The economy has hit everyone hard. Well, everyone who hasn't lost track of how many houses they own, anyhow.
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• The people who matter most to me are the ones who make me laugh
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• But we should not be afraid. How else will we discover the answers?
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• You know there's so many people living in this house
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• Terran Federation
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• Who i think about when i dont want to smile
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• You're voting this sucka down now, but I'm going to laugh
• I tried to laugh but my photocells were cold from the night
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• How can you defend people you know to be guilty?
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• by people who know what salsa should taste like
• the struggle continues, but at least i know i'm not alone
• 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.
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• I don't know how to smile
• You've Always Had a Hidden Agenda, but people were busy with other things
• I'm related to people I don't relate to
• I have a most elegant proof of that, but this node is too small to contain it
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• So many people have come and gone, their faces fade as the years go by
• Girls who go home with you when they don't even know your name
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• You don't know me, but someday you will
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• we never really fight, so I don't know how this is supposed to go
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• Terran
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• most people don't know what they're talking about anyway
• if being gay isn't illegal, how will we know who's cool anymore?
• When the aliens attack my workplace, I'm going to be so damn READY
• The Terran Trade Authority (node_forward)
• Terran Trade Authority
• Galactic Terran Alliance
• Don't be seduced by the taco bar
• I'm starting to think the secret is to NOT be rich and prosperous. To be 'unsuccessful' (depending on who you ask)
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• it's not what you node, but how you node
• I don't need to be loved by you
• Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
• This must be the night when I remember how to fly, when the breeze catches my weight at last
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• I am afraid to breathe or shut my eyes but I do both.
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• Mull around in my mind for a while and you'll find so many treasure troves and so many graveyards that you won't be able to tell the difference between them
• "What *should* we be worried about?"; or how too many cooks make a statistically average soup
• if everyone were 10% more good, there would be a 90% reduction in evil
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• But who codes the coders?
• Things people put up their butts
• The Scots Confession: Chapter 18

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