Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "They weren't too threatening by themselves, but we saw them and spoke of them as if they were fools"

• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• I was into them after they were hip
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• What they don't know can't hurt them
• they/them
• The sky will hold them. They will be an ocean apart.
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• they see in me a man that is empty, in need of love. that will not hurt them.
• they does not know what it might be to live without them
• Words said in anger are, in the end, just words. They only become daggers if you let them.
• We must remember them or they cease to be.
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
• They Are Them. We are us. Kill Them. All.
• Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• They don't get it. Let them suffer.
• They lead us without speaking. They invite us to walk with them on the irresistible path.
• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
• ships are safest in harbor, but they were made to sail
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• We left our dead where they lay and the sand preserved them
• I want them to go out as unseen as they came
• It's best not to touch them while they are leaving
• I will love them all even after they are long gone
• they are waiting for us to return to them, beneath and away
• They were looking for God but found religion instead
• Sing and then murder them with an ice axe if they reveal Your secret.
• The FOOLS! They laughed at my theories at the university, but I'll have my revenge! I'll have my REVENGE!
• but the worm ended up killing them too
• they still come to me even though i don't come to them
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• By the way, those chairs, they spin
• Treating registers as if they were variables
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• If people weren't meant to be eaten, they wouldn't be made of meat!
• and they were as flowers in a fire
• When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.
• silence them by numbers
• Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
• Fuck them all but the six
• They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
• Hit by the realization that they are all getting to know you nodes
• They Were Eleven
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• Words may sound funny if you repeat them aloud too many times
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• The torn fragments of the world slowly stitch themselves together again, and in the rubble you hear them say: Why Are You Here?
• They made life together, alone in themselves
• it's a pity we only appreciate some once they're gone, when they can no longer defend themselves
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• Before they were famous
• They Kept To Themselves, Mostly
• By their fruits you shall know them
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• Rape committed by women
• The Things She Could Forget, If I'd Forget Them Too
• Too many people say nothing when they mean "I love you"
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Let's Pretend They Were Red
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• chop saw
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
• Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them?
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers--Who They Were
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• The four problems of surgery, how they were overcome, and when
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• Now your songs mean what they were supposed to from the beginning
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• Too bad they don't make one for your heart...
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• I eat them by the handful
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• They protect us from danger by harming us before we can harm ourselves
• Too many people say "I love you" when they mean "I like you"
• But what are they really thinking?
• Before they were the Science Fiction Greats
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• I told you they were nuts
• they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• While they were revolting, we grew nostalgic
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Fragments of the world are falling away, and we're tripping over the holes they leave behind
• they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• They looked up at their moon and saw a peculiar bright spot
• fooled them again
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• and they were delighted and eager to go on with tireless curiosity
• They hate us because we're wonderful
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• You see them too; Golden butterflies, countless in number
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• There were only twelve raindrops, she counted them on the windshield under heavy soft skies
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• god is with them, too
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• They are all pretty but fading.
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• But the fire doesn't sing to them anymore
• Of course, they were wrong
• They have potential, if they only applied themselves
• We were all waiting to hear those words (and no one ever said them)
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• Potatoes saved my life they can save yours too
• Good thing they were just typewriters
• Or were they chords of sun?
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• not what words are used, but how they are used
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• they carry but they do not understand
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• They say it's never too late
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• You can teach people truth, but it's harder to teach them to cope with truth.
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• In the dream he laughs and says, You thought they were graceful on the ground
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• Erewhon : Chapter XX - What They Mean By It
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• Surrounded by people, I forget that I am one of them
• The sight of happy couples walking hand in hand, and the feeling of despair that is engendered by watching them
• A regiment of intellectual ghosts walks the streets of this working class city, casting dignity, reason, and courage into each soul they pass by
• You sleep with someone for a couple of years, you get to know them by feel
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
• Things never were what they used to be
• Days go by like sweet summer breeze; I don't know I... can't feel them anymore
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• Us and Them
• Baltimore natives, and how to understand them
• People are impossible. I should know; I'm one of them.
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone

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