Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Nothing can be so uncertain or unstable as fame or power not founded on its own strength."

• You can never be too rich or too thin
• It has been claimed that some or all of this article or section is incoherent and not understandable, and should possibly be reworded if the intended meaning can be determined
• Forming a bond with someone or something can be liberating in some ways. It can be limiting in other ways, until you unbind.
• happy as a clam or a lark or as happy as Pacino can be
• The largest number that can be described in 14 words or less
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• "It gets better" or so they say.
• Screaming Bullet of Compact Imported Death, or: How I Found Out My Mazda Protege Could Go 130mph
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• Would you be more of a Jekyll or a Hyde?
• Rick Deckard, Blade Runner or unscrupulous bastard? You be the judge.
• give me the truth or nothing
• No Time, No Room, No Thought, or Writing Can
• 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?
• Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
• You must be 18 or older to enter
• Want to be shot in the US or beaten in the UK?
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• there's nothing special about love or heartbreak
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• Are you searching to be inspired? Or are you searching to be amused, be content, be happy? What could you have been?
• Put That Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• "What *should* we be worried about?"; or how too many cooks make a statistically average soup
• To be or not to be
• Who is more likely to be color-blind, men or women?
• We must remember them or they cease to be.
• Be there or be square
• she can scream so loud you'll be looking for your ears on the floor
• I can neither confirm or deny these charges
• You are at the beginning of your next trillion years, and you can spend it with us, or you can spend it curled up and shivering.
• Martyrdom, or why mowing a Dandelion is the best thing you can do for him
• sometimes things that look scary can be so beautiful, if you give them a chance
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• So is this, like, artistic or slutty?
• Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool
• NODE OR DIE! Can you do any less?
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• God has power, whether or not one believes in Her/Him
• The Birth of Merlin, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father
• when you're done, you can let her die if that's what you want. Or you can wake her.
• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• Everything Quest: You kids stop your fighting or I will turn this car around so help me God
• I must die or be better
• Except When To Do So Would Injure Them Or Others
• Don't allow an awareness of your own mortality or a sense of impending doom to spoil the moment.
• Is it as it is to do or is it as it is to be?
• Fifteen Miles Or So
• panamaus does the Antipodes, or Get yer shorts on Sydney, there be a NoderParty!
• Or at least it used to be
• I hate you, or why we cannot be friends
• The video cuts out here; nothing more can be determined from the tape.
• do you want to understand? or do you want to be right?
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging. Sort of like some men I know
• nothing true can be said in a single sentence, and anything said in three is a lie
• ...or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• loyalty can be found in surprising places
• you can only make me dizzy if you're spinning me in leaves or snowflakes
• You'll own nothing, and you will be happy
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• Ten stars or so
• can you cough, speak, or breathe?
• lost, or trying to be
• You can't dominate the world on $10 a day (or can you?)
• Have you ever wondered how many gears a car can have? Or: My experiences with an East German vehicle
• We don't swim in yer toilet, so don't fuck us over or you'll need 2 wheelchairs, fool: An Partie
• So is this a Customer Service Center or a Technical Support Center?
• A Mathematical Adventure, or, How I Spent an Afternoon Proving Nothing
• Textbooks you save because there's that one chapter in back you refer to every two years or so
• When at last I found no further traces of the living or the dead, then I stopped.
• How can something so incredibly beautiful be so incredibly wrong?
• or i may simply be a single drop of rain
• I want to be a whale when I grow up. Or a squid.
• calling into the void, is it more frightening to hear a response, or nothing?
• trick or can
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging.
• Just as it could not imprison itself with laws, impoverish itself with money or misguide itself with leaders, so it would not misrepresent itself with signs.
• Are apples, or a woman, so far from your reality?
• The braille on the door was not symbollic of my own blind search for an answer. Or maybe it was.
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• So does this count as a three-way or...
• Be a model or just look like one
• The Couple, or so, Commandments
• The Seven (or so) Deadly Temptations (e2poll)
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• Don't leave the house or you'll be shot for deserting.
• every partial order can be extended to a total order
• Now It Can Be Told: Devo At The Palace 12/9/88
• Any exercise can be made harder by going slower
• So you want to be evil
• Anything you say can and will be used against you. (e2poll)
• Knowledge can never be certain
• there are some things that can only be said at the top of a ferris wheel
• How interracial coupling can be eugenic
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• So you want to be an air traffic controller
• So you want to be an editor (document)
• What a kiss can be
• We'd all be better off if shaking hands were making love, and children were found in the cabbage patch.
• How to be a Jackass in your own home
• Father, can I be the dawn now?
• Which is not to be found in our obituaries
• So, you want to be a philosopher
• TV can be a good thing
• Nothing is too wonderful to be true
• Six Inches Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of
• In such bounty there can be no shortage
• I saw it on the Internet so it MUST be true!
• No one can be in two places at once
• The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All
• A dying playground can be Eden
• If Huey Lewis Isn't Still Cool Then How Can I Be?
• This would be so dirty if we weren't all professionals
• she can't remember what it's like to be found
• It is something very shameful. Please contact me again if I can be of further service.
• We Can Be Together
• Beggars CAN be choosers
• If I can just get Mike to the 24-hour Whipper-Snapper, I will be okay.
• Making a fool of myself must be a hobby, I do it so frequently
• How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
• Any function can be represented as the sum of an even function and an odd one
• No one can be unhappy with a fresh box of crayons
• Can anorexia be a lifestyle?
• How can a thinking, rational adult be a monotheist?
• The strengths that opposed your will shall be obedient fire in your blood
• Expensive foods can be worth it
• My life may no longer be my own
• What can be better than that?
• The X that can be Y is not the true X
• only cold little handheld mirrors in the wee hours of the morning can be trusted
• Information cannot be owned
• Will the Atomic Bomb Ever Be Perfected, and If So, What Becomes of Robert Heinlein?
• Hot pursuit
• We can be heroes
• Proof that any filter can be extended to an ultrafilter
• Anything worth fixing can be fixed.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• I wanted nothing more than for the ocean to be calm and still
• Trite As Can Be (user)
• Take a melody, simple as can be
• You're too young to be so old
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• Nothing could possibly be more satisfactory!
• Any song can be a love song
• With the Right Access, Anyone Can Be a Doctor
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• The life you're fucking with may not be your own
• Dogs can be used for detecting mold in houses
• How can vitality be achieved in figure painting?
• There need to be more powers
• Valour can be brown
• so that all her children will be adventurers in light
• I'm dreaming it so it must be true
• an excess of anything can be a poison
• It can be cold in the dark
• Now he can be loved. Now he is no more.
• Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity
• I beg of you, cradle my head so that I might be with you forever
• What joy it is to be hidden, and what sorrow to never be found!
• If you're not smart enough to figure this out on your own, you shouldn't be doing it
• got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see
• Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
• Everything that can be invented has been invented
• Mother, did it need to be so high?
• Be your own fiction. After that, the story almost writes itself.
• It's so hard to be unfashionable
• Even simple things that you think are harmless can be dangerous. Like crayons. Like velvet.
• How can something be more beautiful than it is?
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• Be your own man
• No one can be totally logical
• To be hoist by one's own petard

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