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• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• Supporting your views on modern social dynamics by citing anthropology
• Inability to decide on what your morals and values should be
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
• People who don't capitalize their I's
• 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 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.
• continuous functions are determined by their values on a dense subset
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• Judging women by their books
• Flaunting your sexuality
• By their fruits you shall know them
• Know your pets
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• People who carp about their jobs
• So many people have come and gone, their faces fade as the years go by
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• 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
• 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
• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
• war trophies for people who have never been to war
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• Capitalize, please
• Expecting your wedding to be the happiest day of your life
• Reading ahead in comic calendars
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• When each had their own personal anthem
• Discovering personalities by watching people with their dogs
• Rap artists who insist on singing their own name in their songs
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
• Everyone tells their own story with them as the star
• Dead links in writeups
• their teary eyes follow us as if our actions are accompanied by tragic music
• The economy has hit everyone hard. Well, everyone who hasn't lost track of how many houses they own, anyhow.
• A bunch of guys in Australia got wasted and went koala hunting and had the night of their lives
• Open letter from Saddam Hussein to the American peoples and the western peoples and their gov'ts
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• one by one their blades will grind to a halt and stand still like a white forest.
• Taking on a Life of Their Own
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
• Addressing others by their user names
• The sand people ride in single file to hide their numbers
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• a beautiful little duckling who wants nothing more than to never grow up in the manner of an arrogant swan
• They had been expecting me
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• institutions have lives of their own
• 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.
• Being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
• armed with nothing but their own vision
• It has become the time of evening when people sit on their porches
• Right-wing doesn't automatically mean racist
• play dumb
• The reason people go to war is because they don't understand the feelings of others.
• secret city map with pins set at the places their eyes had met
• Live Era '87-'93
• Some people want to never feel anything bad, and call that happiness
• On getting blown up 8000 miles from home by a man who does not own shoes
• Listen, boy. Everyone is their own kind of ninja.
• They'll find their own lightning
• When the Ram and the Pig Went to the Forest to Live on Their Own
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• People's secrets show in their eyes
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• Please help us recover your nodes by linking their titles below
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• A lie only hurts when it's told by people you care about
• Surrounded by people, I forget that I am one of them
• Know the mute by finding their storyteller
• Because I've never been able to make anything beautiful
• It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
• The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne
• You can tell a lot about a person from their e-mail address
• wizards held captive the fishes of dreaming, souls that had circled their fortress for years
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• Each one has their own story
• Madmen have a world all their own
• Everyone Thinks the Best about Their Own Children
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• Listen, boy. Everyone is their own kind of nenja.
• just because they never bothered to really do
• Words That Are Their Own Antonyms
• CORDYCEPS: Too clever for their own good
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• Things people put up their butts
• cat haters
• Ever seen two people talking to each other in their sleep?
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
• You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
• People want what they cannot have
• Why do people vote against their interests?
• How to get people to clean up their core dumps
• The problem with people who think life is inexpressibly beautiful is that they so often try to express it anyway
• people on the bottom-side of the world wet their hair with tears
• People who think they have to double-click everything
• A tight circle of like-minded people, each with hands on the genitals of their neighbor
• To all the cold people who want to be warm again
• Woken up by footsteps of people who weren't there
• To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• The Sightless find Their way by the Warmth
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
• 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.
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• "By their very nature, negatives ought to be more abstract {than positives}."
• Never define your value by the scale of someone else's weakness
• cards written by those paid to condense their thoughts and emotions
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• People who don't smoke will never die
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• A Woman Who Never Was
• 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.
• people got a lot of ideas about who i am
• A League of Their Own
• by people who know what salsa should taste like
• Using a command line
• Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
• never know who told it best
• thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
• There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic
• We're flawed because we want so much more. We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.
• Telephone solicitors now call me at their own risk
• I've seen old men crying at their own gravesides
• The movements exist on their own terms, manifesting rare beauty
• Some virtues dig their own graves
• What if Heraclides had never been born?
• Wedding invitations for people who have been divorced for years
• once set, words make a world of their own
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• What is Heraclides had never been born?
• I wish I had been told what Schrödinger really meant
• Please inquire of past generations, and consider the things searched out by their fathers
• Taking things at surface value
• Traumatic in nature? Possible. Pivotal in their own way? Certainly.
• And only those who had been there knew the whole truth.
• everyone is the hero of their own story
• That God at their fountains far off hath been raining.
• Honda Civic 'To Each Their Own' Campaign

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