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• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• A simple and naive way to make the world a better place
• How to make everything2 a better place
• every choice you make is an elimination of future possibility, for better or worse
• we can give up, but the world never will
• Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• You can bear arms, but you can't bare breasts
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• You make a light in the world and you hope someone can still look up from the dust for long enough to see it
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• 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.
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• You can't dominate the world on $10 a day (or can you?)
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• you can change the world and you can't change the world
• May the world be a better place when I wake up
• You can run, but you can't hide
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• In quiet corners of the world, death clings to life in a hopeless embrace, but it cannot hide its stench.
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• you can make anything seem cool with over-formatting
• Star Wars Pepsi Cans
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• worse things have happened to better people
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• For Better or For Worse
• the world's big enough, but how about your mind?
• In a room of jesters, a lone monk is obviously a buzzkill. But in a room of monks, it's a lone jester who's a buzzkill.
• You can teach people truth, but it's harder to teach them to cope with truth.
• Men can download naked women. Women can't download men worshipping them. Ha ha!
• A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• The worse, the better
• If you can't help it, fuck it!
• You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
• This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• But can you still cry like a child?
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• It will only make our insides burn until we are nothing but ash.
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• the water can kill you, but the beer won’t
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• A better place
• we are built to hold on, but the world is about letting go
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• An easy way to make not-so-good food much better
• Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• Painting the world of the people to come. Absent but in dreams.
• I can make a bong out of anything
• The best lunch you can make in 5 minutes
• Electronic music can make it easier to enter codeflow
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• A smiley can make anything you say seem nice
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
• No better friend, no worse enemy
• I may have cellulite, but I can still put my ankles behind my head
• I can do much better than this
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
• You can, but you may not
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• But if you destroy the world, where would we live?
• History rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes.
• War is hell but men like it
• How to assassinate a third world despot with only a butt plug and a litre of raspberry coulis
• Yeah I can love my fellow man; but I'm damned if I'll love yours.
• we will tear the world apart until it is nothing but fragments, and meaning will cease
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• Bugger this: I want a better world
• makes me want to be a better hacker
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• but with words we can create anything
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• What can a reed do but sway about and love?
• but we turn everything we touch to shit; we just can't let beauty stand
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• Smurfs are the key to a better world
• God can create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it
• I can degrade myself better than you can
• Star Wars cans hidden message
• WWIII can start in Afghanistan
• you can use a lot of words and ideas to try to hide it, but you're always making a choice between love and hate
• Never trust anything that can think for itself
• A crazy ideological teenager who still thinks that clear, free, rational thinking can save the world
• Rampant mass consumerism is so evil. Hey, can I have a sip of that Frappucino?
• That balanced place where I can sit with words coming out of my fingers
• Open Publication License's Section VI options can make it non-free
• How can God allow evil to exist?
• I bet I can make you say black
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• Your radical ideas for how to change the world for the better will fail
• A Better Place, A Better Time
• Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
• dumber but better
• sex sells, but obsession sells better
• We have nothing to fear but fear itself
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• Not very sterile, but better than dead
• The worse it gets, the better it is
• Can't nothin' fail but a try
• They may take our car keys, but they'll never take our freedom
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• You can pulp a story but you cannot destroy an idea.
• Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• Butt Wars
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• Sugar and shit in the same bag; she lost the battle but is winning the war
• There has to be a better way to make human beings
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• Worse is better
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
• Beer Drinkers Make Better Lovers
• I will have her forever but I can't touch her
• I will make him promises, but not ones I am afraid to break
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• Actually, I went to bed this morning, sometime, but we can gloss over that.
• Ghosts can laugh, but they're already dead
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• you can close your eyes but not your ears
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• like you're blind but still can see
• Jiffy Pop, for better or for worse?
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• What can be better than that?
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• The difference between the rich and the poor: the answer, but not the solution, to possibly the biggest world issue.
• E2 can only get better (e2poll)
• Love will fill us up, will make us better than
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• But can a robot love.
• The sheer fact that I'm in a developing country should make me a better person, yes?

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