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• Such pretty white points. So sharp.
• Nodes which sarcastically argue a point in order to make the other side look foolish are funny
• Things that would have seemed unbelievable about 11 years ago
• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• you can make anything seem cool with over-formatting
• A smiley can make anything you say seem nice
• How can I talk about love when the bacon is burned and the house is an absolute mess and the children are screaming their heads off and I'm going to miss my bus?
• Because that would make sense
• One letter can make all the difference
• This moment will never come again. Would you rather enjoy it or complain about it?
• You're such a pretty girl
• the slightest movements which I make have begun to squeeze pure blood from my kidneys again
• Why I no longer care about pretty girls
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging. Sort of like some men I know
• When we kiss I can hear your thoughts, so I would rather we didn't
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• Make E2 Pretty: The Poll (e2poll)
• 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.
• Just because a man is nice to pretty girls, it doesn't make him a nice man
• That is not dead which can eternal lie
• Bragging about a high IQ is way worse than bragging about having a large dick. The latter can at least be demonstrably used for something and be put to good use.
• How is poetic form going to help me scream about revolution
• Could/can vs Would/will
• he can find a cure for us, if we help him
• boron has bright orange hair, and Bruce Willis can make it boil at 4200K
• Even a Doll Can Seem To Have a Soul
• Can we still like each other knowing the worst about each other?
• I would like for you to make your arms for me the way you make your bed for you
• It's all a blank, which makes me think something far far worse has actually happened
• If we classified ducks as monsters, well, that would be pretty accurate.
• the things which pierce our abstractions point at true reality
• I've had kisses that make Judas seem sincere
• maybe it's the writing about something that makes it great
• Theories about the future that make you think "Holy shit, I'm scared!"
• Your radical ideas about every point being the center of the universe have already occurred to others
• I can make a bong out of anything
• How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?
• thinking about the brain surgery of your psychoanalyst, whose name is john, will make you crazy in a new way
• certain wisdoms about a place can only come from dying there
• I Can Make You a Man
• only by consuming pieces of one another can beings such as we exist
• Just because you can make music doesn't mean that you should
• i would much rather engage directly with the supreme powers of the universe than the horde of ghosts conjured by man
• I can only pray that the same technology that created this crisis can help me put an end to it.
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging.
• you can only make me dizzy if you're spinning me in leaves or snowflakes
• Ducks can swim. What about her pearls?
• does this writeup make me seem like an asshole?
• Punk rock and classical would make a kickass combination
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• My Fine Feathered Friends, chapter 5: In Which Ruth Makes a Mistake
• Pretty Girls Make Graves (document)
• The "Which would you rather do?" Game
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• I would've taken an axe to it, but I'm pretty sure the dryad would have pulverized me
• That which does not kill us, makes us Stranger
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• You can learn a lot about someone from the way they die
• I'm All You Can Think About
• If somebody wrote a book about your life, would anybody want to read it?
• "You want to know the only thing you can assume about a broken down old man? It's that he's a survivor."
• "What *should* we be worried about?"; or how too many cooks make a statistically average soup
• What song would you want to sing if you could sing?
• Technology can help YOU win Friends and Influence People!
• Teenage love can suck pretty bad
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Thinking about seitan makes miso horny
• Things on which you can make a wish
• The best lunch you can make in 5 minutes
• Up, because the sky has room for us and more than we can ever make
• can the patient make love?
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• if you want, i can help you figure out a nice ending
• I Hope You Can Help Me I've Called Everywhere
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• This song is so good it can make your ears pop
• when you make the worst mistakes is when you need the most help
• I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you.
• corrupt government
• Do your wings make a sound? Sometimes I swear I can hear them
• Never coin a phrase if you can help it
• Don't Worry About the Government
• Make E2 Pretty: Voting (document)
• it would make sense (user)
• these couplets are a waste of time; i never seem to make them scan
• Make E2 Pretty (document)
• You sad cookie, you CARE more about filthy rich pretty people you'll never meet
• There's no point unless you make one
• Here is some important information which you may make use of in your sunny, optimistic future!
• small like a pretty round stone. that makes you think, "fuck yeah. what a nice stone."
• She's beautiful in ways that make her seem fleeting
• More ads which make me not want to buy their cars
• The point at which your carefully woven story falls to pieces
• If I were Twenty-One I would make some permanent, amicable arrangement with my conscience
• That which does not kiss me makes me stronger
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• Please Make Noises which Do Not Signify
• Such knowledge would do nothing more than haunt your dreams and frustrate your days
• Help me tell you a story about things and yourself, without pants
• Which Washington would win in a fight? (e2poll)
• Food which was intended as such by nature
• The point at which music becomes unrecognizable
• How the inside of the mind would look from a purely abstract point of view
• I knew enough about him to know his name and what kind of snowball he could make
• talking shit about a pretty sunset
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• You can tell a lot about a person from their e-mail address
• Snatched away, like the Lindberg baby, who everyone talked about, which explains my lifelong fear of ladders.
• maybe it's the writing about it that makes it great
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• Can We Talk About This?
• It's gone, aint nothing you can do about it now
• the morning snowdrops fall like dew in the sunlight and fill my heart with their icy cold and all i can think about is you
• Your God does not make me want to reconsider my thoughts about suicide
• What can a reed do but sway about and love?
• You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
• what's the point of having other peoples' thoughts about something?
• people are lazy about explanations so they make rules
• One point five words about love
• I bet I can make you say black
• You know the little things about me that would sing in the silence
• He always dreamed about subjects such as the very nature of the soul
• September has such a feeling
• What Can I Point To?
• Among the fields and small houses lies a boy I can only dream about
• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
• Make no bones about it
• One man can make a difference
• Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity
• I can make you howl. And vice versa. Let's get down to business.
• No government can ever give you freedom
• Open Publication License's Section VI options can make it non-free
• This place makes me embarrassed about my spelling, not my sexual deviations
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• You can have great armfuls of just such roses as these.
• In such bounty there can be no shortage
• All that you can take with you is that which you give away.
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• You make a light in the world and you hope someone can still look up from the dust for long enough to see it
• Electronic music can make it easier to enter codeflow
• a place which you can only see for a moment before waking
• It's as if the fact that language can only ever provide an approximate representation of reality somehow makes reality inadequate.
• Any fool can make a rule
• anybody can make lights
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• When words fail me, music helps. I can at least sing along.
• We can do the sideways thinking that's needed to combat something which can literally eat your combat training.
• How high tech app helps people engage with birds
• Might be like leftovers. Would not taste the same, however sweet.
• How dating pretty boys helped me come out
• What can you tell us about the Republican Platform?
• If we had a more developed tailbone, would we wag our tail?
• Don't try to make the moment last. You can ruin it that way. Just learn to savor it and, when the time comes, learn how to let it go.
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• Why is it we desire that which we can never attain?
• Why noding about your personal life can be a bad idea
• You are talented; I would like to make love to you
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• You would make a wonderful father
• I did not say it would make sense
• That which does not kill me, makes me stronger
• if you weren't real I would make you up
• That which doesn't kill me makes me breakfast
• Why do the things that happen to us make such funny stories?
• I cannot exactly deny what you are saying, however i am not prepared to make it part of my belief system at this time
• Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
• Feeling bad about a good deed
• The good thing about using a horribly outdated file system
• You mean the me that you would be
• Things my mom doesn't argue with me about anymore
• The Trick About Thawing Grapes
• The secret truth about the PalmPilot
• A joke about tax collectors
• Your radical ideas about religion as a mechanism of social control have already occurred to others
• I don't give a DAMN about your character
• More Songs About Buildings and Food
• LPPR: Illegal Speech About Drugs
• You are the kind of girl my mother warned me about
• Doctors know nothing about drugs
• What Little I Know About Ingredients For Thai Cuisine

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