Findings:

• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• I'll look at this in a year and wonder how I could have been so stupid
• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• 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 could have been Canadian
• There were many who went in huddled procession
• Why are there so many assholes on the internet?
• I have been alone while I was with many girls
• You haven't seen it and you don't understand. I have malice. I have cruelty. The little fire that's always been inside me isn't so little anymore.
• There were times better than this
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
• there are only so many truths. everything else is derived
• Could I Have Been?
• for so many lifetimes i have sought what i now have
• So There We Were
• Some days there are so many words I need all three notebooks
• Why have there been no great women artists?
• Oh, that it were so simple. That I could just utter those words.
• Could Muhammad have been autistic?
• So many were frozen, but you we kept warm
• And All That Could Have Been
• It could have been me
• you could have done better with this letter of yours, miss
• Could have beens, should have beens
• I used to have so many dreams
• Why are there so many crazy people on the Internet?
• Are there still so many Nazis in Germany?
• I have lost many things, so many
• It could have been a Brilliant Career
• You know there's so many people living in this house
• The cat (rumination of all that could have been)
• How to really brush your teeth (Yes, you have been doing it wrong)
• "Why, oh why do I have so many innocuous crosses to bear?"
• I could have been one of a two
• Are you searching to be inspired? Or are you searching to be amused, be content, be happy? What could you have been?
• i have been burning for so long
• we're part of something bigger than any one of us. i just feel lucky to have been chosen.
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• So many people have come and gone, their faces fade as the years go by
• Front porch, what should have been said
• New zombies have been animated to replace the old
• We'd all be better off if shaking hands were making love, and children were found in the cabbage patch.
• We Have Always Been The Party Of No
• you have never been safe
• Penis size and impregnation
• What have you been smoking?
• There was a time when I was a better person
• I have been enslaved to imaginary Berlins my whole life. (dream) mp3 (recording)
• unfortunately, his entire corpus was composed in English, and so has been lost to the ravages of time
• And only those who had been there knew the whole truth.
• Oh well, I guess I'll have to stain the world with darkness until my bloodlust has been quenched.
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Animals that should not have been domesticated
• My Bitch Better Have My Money
• mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
• Your version of my story is probably so much better than the real one anyway.
• Phone books have never been this exciting!
• Why there hasn't been much hooliganism in holland during Euro2000
• I like the way I'm doing it better than the way you're not
• The smell of kittens that have been careless; the flowers and the beer cans emerging from the snow.
• I have never been sure that you knew quite how much I loved you
• Doing illogical things to feel better about yourself
• We have been shown the plan only insofar as it concerns ourselves
• And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
• I may or may not have been naked
• It's been so long since I've known this feeling
• war trophies for people who have never been to war
• Everything that there is to do with a guitar has been done
• Everything that there is to do with electronic instruments has been done
• Your Scars Were Better Than Mine
• I know I have been dreaming
• These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
• There's no better mirror than a child
• Final moments lost to what should have been
• Laugh when you have been listening well
• Bitch Better Have My Money
• Have you ever been illusioned?
• It hasn't been so long, but
• So now that I've been cursed to die...
• There has to be a better way to make human beings
• You have been in every line I have ever read
• do you remember the disco rhombus? it must have all been a dream.
• Maybe you were inherently complicated, maybe you've been complicated over the years, but know that you are complicated.
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• you would have been
• all that time, all those threads, weaving through something that must have been far too confusing to enjoy
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated.
• Wedding invitations for people who have been divorced for years
• Choosing bitterness is taking the easy way out. It's so easy to feel bitter when you've been hurt. Path of least resistence. Forgiveness is a path that goes in a very different direction.
• we're all ready to break. has it always been like this?
• What Might Have Been
• I have been showing you what a warrior is not.
• It Must Have Been the Roses
• Grief, killing grief, have not my torments been
• All Girls Should Have Been Born Blonde
• I don't even badly want what I've been taking. It's just been there.
• A time when a gun might have been helpful
• Why is "Being There" Considered Better?
• The path we have been walking
• Is there a kind of information you're better off not having?
• grumbling dissertation on how everything would be much better if it all were to explode
• how many years, please, until I am better?
• A lap dance is so much better when the stripper is crying
• It's better to be heartbroken than to have a heart not worth breaking
• better to have loved and lost (node_forward)
• There are more and better reasons to dislike a human being than race or religion
• It's better to be alone than to wish you were
• The bong on the table must have been part of the scenery
• worse things have happened to better people
• We're sorry to inform you: Tony Orlando has been postponed
• Things that have never been said in the entire history of man
• Do not be surprised, I have always been your canvas, Argenis.
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• "It gets better" or so they say.
• The classic Warner Brothers cartoon characters have been replaced by lookalikes
• You have been paroled from participation in the Capitalist Project
• Gap analysis of a telephone call
• in the end it was better that we were apart
• i could eat alphabet soup and SHIT a better diagram!
• I have children; therefore I am better than you
• I don't have a postmodern condition; I've always been like this
• Names have been changed
• How long have you been in love with her?
• I have been orbiting this planet for thirty-seven years, and am just now starting to experience reentry (document)
• We are the ones we have been waiting for
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• The way things have always been done
• Been Brown So Long, It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• I have not been entirely truthful with you. I did gagoogidy that girl. I gashmoygadied her gaflavity with my googus.
• It's been years since we were born
• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
• How to get Apache to tell your visitors when files have moved or been deleted
• Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
• So someone tells you they've been raped
• Boy, have you been having those dreams of yours again?
• I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
• My entire life I have been composing my death poem
• So couch, I hear you've been sleeping with her
• My life's got rags, my life's got riches. They've all been mixed together for so long it's hard to tell them apart.
• if a cycle can be broken, then it will have been worth it
• I have been enslaved to imaginary Berlins my whole life.
• Hello lovely fool where have you been all this time.
• I shoulda been there
• our voices, once clarion, have been muted by time and mortgages
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• Every morning when I wake up, I feel guilty for all the things I have ever been
• You will be a tear-stained diary entry, and it will have been all your fault
• You can walk down a path you've gone down many times with the ghosts of all the people you've ever been.
• Strangers have been, and continue to be, very kind to me. Thank you.
• He's been places they have not.
• you've been through something that no one should have to go through
• A part of us remains wherever we have been.
• It's better to regret something you HAVE done
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• There need to be better terms in English for "significant others"
• I am not gay. I have never been gay.
• Our minds bend and twist in the wind, our bodies fall apart, and the ghosts we leave behind have only one question: Where Have You Been?
• been there, done that
• So - you've been making love to me ten thousand miles away - how tantalizing.
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• a bad day is when I lie in the bed and think of things that might have been
• If it had been able to, the light would have smiled
• We are the people we have been waiting for.
• I must have been mental to have done something like that, eh?
• For all sad words on tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."
• I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they are real
• It's better to have loved and lost
• I appear to have been misinformed
• should have been an artist not a software engineer

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