Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "an abstraction is a simplification of something complex. but the simplification is illusion. otherwise, the complex would be simple."

• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• complex numbers can't be ordered
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• But what kind of violence would not be natural? Is not cruelty natural?
• How complex can a public toilet be?
• For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• That would be me
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• There must be something terribly wrong with me. Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything.
• It is not known why a goose would be used in this manner
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Forming a bond with someone or something can be liberating in some ways. It can be limiting in other ways, until you unbind.
• but wherever i go i'll be looking for you
• If we classified ducks as monsters, well, that would be pretty accurate.
• You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1975
• If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• The Filesystem That Would Be King
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• there must be something positive about this; I just can't think of it at the moment
• If you would be seated
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• Imagine how the world would be if only wrecking balls could destroy flowers
• Once upon a time, I imagined she would be a river
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• Even simple things that you think are harmless can be dangerous. Like crayons. Like velvet.
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• How can something so incredibly beautiful be so incredibly wrong?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Starving in the greenhouse
• I assume I am a visionary. You will not be able to convince me otherwise.
• I figured things would be okay once the werewolf started to cry
• eternity would be boring
• Would you take your shoes back now, i think I know what it is like to be you.
• Life without music would be a mistake
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• Today will be difficult. But tomorrow, good riding.
• Mandy would be happy if i died
• I never thought it would be like this
• Friend, you have a lot to learn if you think loving me would be a bad idea.
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• The easier option would just be to electroplate the chicken.
• What tasty food would be distusting if eaten over rice?
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• If you would be so kind
• Ain't what I'm gonna be, ain't what I wanna be, but lord thank you I ain't what I used to be.
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• If anything were different, everything would be different
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• Linux would be dead without Windows
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• How can something be more beautiful than it is?
• Your noise would not be missed here.
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• Open source cars would be doing 200 mpg by now
• I set the alarm clock anyway, knowing I would be up all night
• grumbling dissertation on how everything would be much better if it all were to explode
• If you were a vegetable, what kind of vegetable would you be? (registry)
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1795
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• how many bird nests would be made from her lovely hair
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• Would you be more of a Jekyll or a Hyde?
• but you wanna be bad
• Unloved, yeah. But I'd rather be cursed than poisoned.
• That Would Be Enough
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• Can it still be a good luck charm if it's something you stole?
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• Would I have hid myself away if I had known I'd never be found?
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• it wouldn't be so bad if people like you would have become ghosts too
• The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• They knew what our pain would be.
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• Sushi would be what sophisticated human aliens would eat.
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• We knew there would be kissing, and breasts
• The Ten Commandments revised
• Where would America be without Canada?
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal
• If not voting could change the system it would be illegal
• If language were liquid, it would be rushing in
• The best kind of bartender
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• The Man Who Would Be King
• This would be easier if we did it backwards
• In a world of blind people, c would be the speed of sound
• Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
• That I Would Be Good
• Just to see what it would be like
• Why Star Trek: Series V would be a bad thing
• Be something... be anything other than this
• Mind without body
• I assumed we would not even be friends
• Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible
• A whimper would be fine
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• Might be like leftovers. Would not taste the same, however sweet.
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• How to be a Gangsta (in 5 simple steps)
• Why don't you just rip my heart out, it would be quicker and less painful
• Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
• Things I would be interested in seeing used in a literary context
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• Hot pursuit
• If someone wants to do something and it isn't hurting you... DON'T BE A FUCKING DICK
• It is something very shameful. Please contact me again if I can be of further service.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• One more robot learns to be something more than a machine.
• Unraveling things you would never be able to say with words.
• Something to Be Desired
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• it would be hilarious if only
• Take a melody, simple as can be
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• Sorrier than I ever thought I would be
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• he thought it would be great fun to conquer the world
• This would be so dirty if we weren't all professionals
• Men are designed to be good hunters, but it's women who are born killers
• The zombie revolution will not be televised. But it will be tweeted.
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1985
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• Everything should be made as simple as possible, and not simpler
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• what would it take to be serene again?
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.

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