Findings:

• There is nothing the dead can do
• It was all I could do not to cry
• There's nothing more annoying than to try to rebel against someone who's totally supportive about whatever you want to do
• There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• It was the least I could do
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Everything that there is to do with electronic instruments has been done
• There is something we can do
• There’s nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• No, really, there's STACKS of fun stuff to do here: A defiant Canberra nodermeet
• There was a man and a woman
• Nothing could kill the Grimace
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Spirituality has nothing to do with religion
• All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
• Hm... that's strange. There's nothing there!
• there's nothing quite as wonderful to me as the assorted scars of a woman who's too busy reading to watch where she's walking
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• What I would do If I knew what was good for me
• There is nothing outside the text
• With you there is nothing involved but everything
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There was a time before
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• There's nothing wrong with being a fanboy
• Nothing Was Beautiful and Everything Hurt
• I remember, there was one
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There could still be a reunion of The Band
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Nothing could possibly be more satisfactory!
• Do not fight what isn't there
• Oh acid, is there anything you can't do?
• There's nothing sadder than an unemployed stripper with a sick car at Christmas time
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• There's nothing more depressing than an empty mailbox, especially today
• his is a local shop for local people. There's nothing for you here.
• there is nothing you keep, there is only a reflection
• Six reasons -- er, four reasons -- why maybe there could be a (nontheistic) God
• There was a little girl
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• and there was this girl
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• If the Windows source code was leaked, what do you think would happen?
• It is a strange thing to wake up every day and do things you care nothing about
• There's nothing harder than learning how to receive.
• There is nothing outside the universe
• This is a local shop for local people. There's nothing for you here.
• Do or do not, there is no try
• This writeup has nothing to do with this title
• do not believe that any idea is the end. there is no end to ideas.
• There's nothing noble about being a soldier
• There was a cold day
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• There was no one waiting for me...
• It was the right thing to do.
• There's nothing like the sound of snowpants
• Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Nothing could be further from the truth
• Nothing could be close to quite like this
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
• Such knowledge would do nothing more than haunt your dreams and frustrate your days
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• There was once a Man
• Where's the kaboom?
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• there's nothing special about love or heartbreak
• There was a young lady of Riga
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• One hour there was sunlight
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• What guys do while their girlfriends aren't there
• 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.
• If I could do it all over again
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• there is nothing left, no joy, no wonder, just the office and cold soup
• like nothing ever was
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• Fifty works of English Literature we could do without
• if you do not fail, you have learned nothing
• There's nothing scarier than finding a microchip in your body
• Jones saw forest, saw nothing for it, was a little telephone apology
• Was it ever there?
• Thinking I could do it by myself and learning I couldn't.
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• Nothing to do, nothing to say, I think I must be dreaming
• that starfish that you threw back in the sea was already dead and the parent seagull had nothing to take to the newly hatched chicks who then starved
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Before you, there was me
• A knock there was upon the door
• There Was No Leak
• When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire
• I don't think you could do this with a modern SUV
• There is nothing left for me there, except for all that I left behind
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" rule
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• "It was wrong to do this," said the angel
• What do we want? Nothing. When do we want it? Whenever.
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
• there's nothing left to take a look at
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• How do you get there?
• There is nothing more permanent than a temporary measure
• There is nothing more dangerous than a bored sociopath
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Once there was a way...
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• Reality has nothing to do with money
• There was an old lady
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There Is Nothing Left to Lose
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Do you think you could love me now?
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Nothing you could drink from
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• Where did you go? Out. What did you do? Nothing.
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• It was a pauper's laugh. It was what I could afford.
• There's nothing new under the sun
• There is nothing left to cry about
• No shit, there I was
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Was There a Time
• I was there
• There was a baby in China
• Don't just do something, sit there.
• There Was A Friend
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• There is nothing inside of you
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Everything that there is to do with a guitar has been done
• How to do nothing, and still look like a hard worker
• there's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do
• As long as there are girls left do dance with this world is worth saving
• There Once Was a Farmer

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