Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't"

• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• If you would be so kind
• I beg of you, cradle my head so that I might be with you forever
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• 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.
• This would be so dirty if we weren't all professionals
• it wouldn't be so bad if people like you would have become ghosts too
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Making your body race so your mind won't be able to
• You're too young to be so old
• This is how it appears on Wikipedia and they tend to be somewhat anal about grammar, so I'm trusting this is correct
• she can scream so loud you'll be looking for your ears on the floor
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• On what it is like to be so crazy you can't sleep
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• sometimes things that look scary can be so beautiful, if you give them a chance
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• So you want to be a telephone engineer
• if everyone were 10% more good, there would be a 90% reduction in evil
• How to be a jerk and piss off your SO
• We wanted to be together, so we worked it out.
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
• I'm dreaming it so it must be true
• So you want to be a DJ?
• So many were frozen, but you we kept warm
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
• Why it is so hard to be yourself
• got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• So, you want to be a philosopher
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• So you want to be an editor (document)
• i assume it is considered odd to be so fond of someone based on text alone
• grumbling dissertation on how everything would be much better if it all were to explode
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• If you were a vegetable, what kind of vegetable would you be? (registry)
• Like minded so you must be crazy
• Hitchhiking used to be so much fun
• But what kind of violence would not be natural? Is not cruelty natural?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• so that all her children will be adventurers in light
• Do you know what it is like to be alone among so many?
• 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.
• Might be like leftovers. Would not taste the same, however sweet.
• Starving in the greenhouse
• It feels so fine to be a fish today
• 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
• thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
• If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
• I saw it on the Internet so it MUST be true!
• Mother, did it need to be so high?
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• Will the Atomic Bomb Ever Be Perfected, and If So, What Becomes of Robert Heinlein?
• So you want to be an air traffic controller
• so be it
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
• So you wanna be a hacker
• So You Wanna Be A Lawyer
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• So you want to be a composer
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging.
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging. Sort of like some men I know
• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• It's so cool to be denied
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• What it's like to be in love
• If anything were different, everything would be different
• So you want to be a waitress
• If I were Twenty-One I would be happy
• will my heart be there, where I left it so long ago?
• If language were liquid, it would be rushing in
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• 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
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• How can something so incredibly beautiful be so incredibly wrong?
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• This song is meant to be played so loudly it liquefies your thoughts as you drive at night through abandoned neon dinosaur bones
• So mote it be
• When the aliens attack my workplace, I'm going to be so damn READY
• So You Want to Be a Wizard
• So you want to be a star?
• You could be so delicious
• Making a fool of myself must be a hobby, I do it so frequently
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• It's so hard to be unfashionable
• So you want to be evil
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• Linux would be dead without Windows
• If love was a circus, you'd be a clown
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• If she were an insect, she'd be a moth in search of a flame
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• Adam fell that men might be
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• If the field of AI had tried building footballers rather than chess players, how might it be different today?
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• Beware! This might be reality!
• Open source cars would be doing 200 mpg by now
• Hot pursuit
• Just to see what it would be like
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
• The Enigmatic Head of They Might Be Giants
• We'd all be better off if shaking hands were making love, and children were found in the cabbage patch.
• The back of the cereal box isn't what it used to be
• If Huey Lewis Isn't Still Cool Then How Can I Be?
• Say It Ain't So
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1985
• That I Would Be Good
• A whimper would be fine
• Things I would be interested in seeing used in a literary context
• Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible
• Where's the kaboom?
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• If someone wants to do something and it isn't hurting you... DON'T BE A FUCKING DICK
• I Might Be Wrong
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• They Might Be Giants
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
• Unraveling things you would never be able to say with words.
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• 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.
• it would be hilarious if only
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• Life without music would be a mistake
• eternity would be boring
• Sorrier than I ever thought I would be
• Your noise would not be missed here.
• For Nicholas, wherever he might be now
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• I assumed we would not even be friends
• Why fab might be going on an all-smoothie diet soon
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• Nicotine might not be the most harmful ingredient of tobacco
• If God was willing to let it be
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• If there were a slight, let it be fulsome
• Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
• You might be a Washingtonian
• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
• I set the alarm clock anyway, knowing I would be up all night
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• Things never were what they used to be

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