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• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• 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
• It was better before they came
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• If the Windows source code was leaked, what do you think would happen?
• 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.
• 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
• What would aliens think if they talked to an average western human being?
• Words which mean more than you think they do at the time.
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• Three Golden-Tongued Knights, Whom No One Could Refuse Whatsoever They Might Ask
• They came together so as to form one whole
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• The Ten Commandments revised
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• They protect us from danger by harming us before we can harm ourselves
• What people talk about when they can't think of anything to talk about
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• Things that a fetus would say if it could speak
• They grow up. No one told me.
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• I want them to go out as unseen as they came
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• Did you think I would give up that easily?
• They said no
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• By the way, those chairs, they spin
• Anonymous Men Think They Can Talk To Me
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• they can drop bombs and no one will get hurt
• They think I'm a god
• the stars would weep if they knew of our existence
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• People who think they have to double-click everything
• I don't think the sun was up
• Don't count your chickens before they hatch
• "By their very nature, negatives ought to be more abstract {than positives}."
• They Came To America
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country
• These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before
• 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
• Sometimes people will tell you that there are no options and they will be wrong.
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• Drivers who think they are Neo
• You stole what they would have given you
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
• Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• The Clothes They Stood Up In
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• They knew what our pain would be.
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• Wishfully think they have souls.
• Ground rush
• Before they were famous
• How to get rid of spiders before they get rid of YOU
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• Most men will not swim before they are able to
• They could have saved Kevin
• Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• Beings from space: What could they want?
• They have no bones.
• Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
• Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
• a steady diet of coincidences makes it easy to believe they are more than just coincidences
• And They Shall Know No Fear
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• Loophole Abusing a Magic Cauldron, Chapter 18: The Stakes, they are Raised
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• "for the last time: Up here they don't wear Lederhosen!": A christmassy eurotrash nodermeet.
• I was into them after they were hip
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad
• Hit by the realization that they are all getting to know you nodes
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• They have a trendy name for every different kind of fucked up.
• If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
• If they would only choose to hear it
• 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.
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• 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 cannot pick up the pieces, unless they all fall to the floor
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• 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 the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
• your roots run deep, and they are stronger than you think
• 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!
• For anybody who thinks they need to see a psychiatrist
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• I joined the Army in order to die, and they sent me where I could die
• 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.
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Together we kept bobbing up and down and no one came to save us.
• They did so because they believed they could.
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• Over and over it would rain so that we could not dig the body up
• As strangers they could speak, and it lifted the rain
• This is no joke; I always thought it was a company that made trench coats.
• I can't think of anyone who could appreciate more than me your eyes and your voice
• Before they were the Science Fiction Greats
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• They Had No Poet
• There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
• Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
• What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• No One Ever Listens Do They, 'Lyssa
• Before They Are Hanged
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• Eat your dreams, before they get cold.
• it's a pity we only appreciate some once they're gone, when they can no longer defend themselves
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• 90% of people think they are of above average intelligence
• How would you like it if they took your subculture and made it a theme night?
• If they put you in a copy machine, an ass would come out
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Kids that age think they know it all
• Are your pets as loyal as you think they are?
• Erewhon : Chapter XX - What They Mean By It
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• cat haters
• I do not think that they will sing to me.
• The problem with people who think life is inexpressibly beautiful is that they so often try to express it anyway
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• No, they are not stupid
• First They Came
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• They looked up at their moon and saw a peculiar bright spot
• 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
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• And they never think these tools will fail.
• I was raised by the French government
• Because, you think, Maybe They Are Delicious.
• They think it's all over
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• How They Came to Bunbury
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• she was waylaid by an octopus
• My lunch money was stolen by a predatory Mars rover
• I could tell by all of her dead house plants
• Suicide is punishable by resurrection. There will be no exceptions.
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• My father never made promises he could not keep. My father never promised anything.
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?

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