Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "or rather not, as that would just result in a pile of mostly inanimate objects, rather than anything remotely agile"

• This moment will never come again. Would you rather enjoy it or complain about it?
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• Would you rather fight a horse-sized chicken or a hundred chicken-sized horses
• We would rather drown in a sea of tears than alter our beliefs.
• Why do gays think that men would rather give a blow job than sex to a complete stranger?
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• i would much rather engage directly with the supreme powers of the universe than the horde of ghosts conjured by man
• Rather than a safe and solid landscape (boring)
• Why is there something rather than nothing?
• The "Which would you rather do?" Game
• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy
• Comfort the child that looks most beautiful, rather than the one that is crying
• Rather than trying
• Worlds are altered rather than destroyed
• I'd rather fight giant monsters than work at McDonald's
• Would you rather have a matrimony profile?
• Unloved, yeah. But I'd rather be cursed than poisoned.
• 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
• Just as it could not imprison itself with laws, impoverish itself with money or misguide itself with leaders, so it would not misrepresent itself with signs.
• What if we were just a rather vicious monkey group that just fucked faster?
• That Time and Absence proves Rather helps than hurts to loves
• I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees
• If the field of AI had tried building footballers rather than chess players, how might it be different today?
• When we kiss I can hear your thoughts, so I would rather we didn't
• I would a thousand times rather have had a simple cheap sandwich with a friend
• I'd rather be lost than be where you call home
• I'd rather live in Terf Island than Chaser Continent
• Is that massive cerebral hemorrhaging, or are you just happy to see me?
• The easier option would just be to electroplate the chicken.
• A Plan for World Domination or Just Another Nodermeet? Bristol, Summer 2003
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
• If anything were different, everything would be different
• If all the Chinese jumped at once, would cataclysm result?
• Uh, are you looking at my joystick to impress her, or are you just an asshole?
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• I'll pretend I just cursed myself by saying this, so when it doesn't happen I have something to fall back on other than you
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• More than just a song
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• would float or tread water. Or drown in it.
• Your piercing intelligence would undo or invigorate me
• ultimately, i just like you. more than anyone.
• When is a monkey's orgasm more than just fun and games?
• Being Asian is rather like having large breasts
• Except When To Do So Would Injure Them Or Others
• Don't lament but rather embrace the removal of human interaction
• Rather Ripped
• I'd rather read a book
• Ignorant, stupid, insane, or just plain evil
• What Everything does better than anything else
• I still can't think of anything, or how Fight Club changed my life
• What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
• Be something... be anything other than this
• Anything more than a mouthful is a waste
• No one asks me if I'm a Satanist or anything because I take the precaution of wearing a predominantly flannel and hawaiian shirt-oriented wardrobe
• Anything more than a handful is a waste
• Sorrier than I ever thought I would be
• Is it social anxiety or just laziness?
• A proctor is more than just a reader
• The winter chill reminds those of us closer to our end than our beginning that maybe, just maybe, safety isn't the primary goal in a life that will certainly end in death.
• I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
• It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
• Child support is more than just money
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• we're part of something bigger than any one of us. i just feel lucky to have been chosen.
• I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• You, standing
• Would you just look at this thing
• I knew before I met you just how we would end
• rather be in Philadelphia
• No place I'd rather be
• Dan Rather
• I can't decide if what you're saying is too profound for me to comprehend or just insane
• i'd rather not
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
• insufficient hatred, lust or love for anything
• Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head
• I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.
• Such knowledge would do nothing more than haunt your dreams and frustrate your days
• Just to see what it would be like
• Are we listening, or are we just being silent?
• Are you on drugs or just having one of those days?
• sometimes, people are more than just OK
• Could you spare some change or maybe just a smile?
• Can't she just carpool or something?
• skeptics would say that it's just light dancing beneath the eyelids
• Are you depressed or just full of angst?
• Or he'll just kick me in the face and scream abstract noises and dance around outside in his underwear and have sex with the neighbor's dog and try to fly by jumping off the toilet
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• Why don't you just rip my heart out, it would be quicker and less painful
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• Some days are magic, and I can do anything. The other days, I just have to wait, and hope it comes back.
• Just Yes Or No Will Do
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• For future reference, when in eternity or insanity; dreams I would like to have
• What would happen if an immovable object were confronted with an unstoppable force?
• Thank god it's winter, or it would stink, too.
• Hugs and drugs are better than hugs or drugs
• There are more and better reasons to dislike a human being than race or religion
• What one object of modern technology would bring you ultimate power in the 15th century ?
• a steady diet of coincidences makes it easy to believe they are more than just coincidences
• Be a model or just look like one
• Submissions for the "I'd Rather Be Noding" Bumper Sticker
• i want to show you that anything is possible. i wish you would believe me.
• rather
• Would you be more of a Jekyll or a Hyde?
• Crazy Is Just Like Anything Else
• The whole idea of having a close personal relationship with God is rather new
• If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
• The rather religious attitude certain people have towards food
• I think I'd rather see this on TV
• On second thought, maybe I'd rather be dangerous
• I'd rather drag out slimy skeletons and nail them dripping to your children's pastel walls
• inanimate object
• Inanimate Objects Party
• I have no proof that he would ever want to kiss or destroy me.
• The fragile innocence of inanimate objects
• Even inanimate objects have a sort of life and legacy
• Using Pavlovian Theory to classically condition inanimate objects
• Talking to inanimate objects
• Falling in love with an inanimate object
• Loving inanimate objects
• The Malice of Inanimate Objects
• Angels can take the form of inanimate objects
• Sometimes I'd rather sleep in the backyard
• Am I insane, or is it just wishful thinking?
• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• Agile Software Development
• anything is possible
• I didn't change anything!
• What, if anything, is this meant to signify?
• How to get away at work without doing anything
• A smiley can make anything you say seem nice
• Violence never solved anything
• you can make anything seem cool with over-formatting
• Not that there's anything wrong with that
• Capitalize, please
• Information doesn't want to be anything
• You can do anything you want to, as long as it's not important
• What were you before you were anything at all?
• Laughing at what we call cloudbursts and showers and drizzles; knowing these are not subtle enough to mean anything about what comes from the heavens
• Truth is a concept, subjective like anything else
• How far are you from anything?
• Stoners will smoke anything
• To Anthea, who may command him Anything
• Turn anything into a sound file
• Anything you say can and will be used against you. (e2poll)
• A woman will do anything if she loves you.
• Anything worth fixing can be fixed.
• You didn't feel anything, did you
• The man who can fix anything
• My father never made promises he could not keep. My father never promised anything.
• Never point a gun at anything you don't want to kill
• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly
• I don't go out of my way to believe in anything
• Since when did you respect anything?
• You mean the me that you would be
• I'll do anything to pass
• The music in my head is too loud to think about anything but you
• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
• set fire to head. kill anything that runs out.
• You people will trash anything.
• why I think I can't do anything
• I still can't think of anything about Fight Club that changed my life
• It is safe to say that I'm going to get my payback if he is anything like me.
• nothing true can be said in a single sentence, and anything said in three is a lie
• An empathy for all things inanimate

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