Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "the Duple Drive would be incapable of bringing a human being to any but the closest stars in a single lifetime"

• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• What would aliens think if they talked to an average western human being?
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• Why Star Trek: Series V would be a bad thing
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• But what kind of violence would not be natural? Is not cruelty natural?
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• Sushi would be what sophisticated human aliens would eat.
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• There has to be a better way to make human beings
• 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.
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• Life without music would be a mistake
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• Where would America be without Canada?
• That I Would Be Good
• I never thought it would be like this
• It is not known why a goose would be used in this manner
• what would it take to be serene again?
• If you were a vegetable, what kind of vegetable would you be? (registry)
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• How precious can human life be? There are six billion people on the planet!
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• Starving in the greenhouse
• Mind without body
• Any song can be a love song
• Be nice to smokers: any cigarette can be their last
• Men are designed to be good hunters, but it's women who are born killers
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• painting stars that have come to be
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• You're too good to be human
• grumbling dissertation on how everything would be much better if it all were to explode
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• So you want to be a star?
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• Be Quiet and Drive (Far away)
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• If you were any more open minded, your brain would fall out
• Human Consciousness could be Immortal
• Open source cars would be doing 200 mpg by now
• I want the real you - not this superficial being you pretend to be
• Would you take your shoes back now, i think I know what it is like to be you.
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• How to be a human in love and other impossible things
• I secretly admire Cruella De Vil. PETA will be kicking down my door any second.
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• In the movie of his life, the part of Keanu Reeves will be played by a block of wood, and the critics will pan it for being too expressive
• The Ten Commandments revised
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• Things I would be interested in seeing used in a literary context
• Any odd number can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares
• If anything were different, everything would be different
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• We knew there would be kissing, and breasts
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• Be human
• The Man Who Would Be King
• asking only to be stared into, offering no reward
• The mailbomb from the Christian Fundamentalists I pissed off should be here any day now
• even though I wouldn't be able to tell you any of this
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• I assumed we would not even be friends
• I cannot be touched by any of this madness
• So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
• I set the alarm clock anyway, knowing I would be up all night
• World peace is a beautiful dream that will never be achieved by the human race
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
• Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• he thought it would be great fun to conquer the world
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• I am Human, and I Need to be Loved.
• Sorrier than I ever thought I would be
• I figured things would be okay once the werewolf started to cry
• The zombie revolution will not be televised. But it will be tweeted.
• She was too beautiful to be human
• or i may simply be a single drop of rain
• it would be hilarious if only
• Any function can be represented as the sum of an even function and an odd one
• Any exercise can be made harder by going slower
• nothing true can be said in a single sentence, and anything said in three is a lie
• we can't all be rock stars
• If we classified ducks as monsters, well, that would be pretty accurate.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• 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.
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1795
• 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.
• Your noise would not be missed here.
• Bernie would have won "ANY BREAKFAST BAGEL SANDWICH" at McDonald's
• eternity would be boring
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• If not voting could change the system it would be illegal
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal
• What it means to be a human and what are we worth?
• This would be easier if we did it backwards
• You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your part
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• That would be me
• Why don't you just rip my heart out, it would be quicker and less painful
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1975
• The Filesystem That Would Be King
• Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• Sometimes, all you can be is a friend
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• Proof that any filter can be extended to an ultrafilter
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• there aren't any stars because we haven't created them yet
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• This song is meant to be played so loudly it liquefies your thoughts as you drive at night through abandoned neon dinosaur bones
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• In a world of blind people, c would be the speed of sound
• Should there be a statute of limitations on being a jerk?
• A whimper would be fine
• Just to see what it would be like
• My entire genetic makeup can be entered on a single CD-Rom
• Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible
• Might be like leftovers. Would not taste the same, however sweet.
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond
• If language were liquid, it would be rushing in
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• Hot pursuit
• If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• Linux would be dead without Windows
• If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1985
• painting stars that have not come to be
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• if i'm right, you'll be here to read this any day now
• This would be so dirty if we weren't all professionals
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.

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