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• This world might be saved, if only for the children
• Imagine how the world would be if only wrecking balls could destroy flowers
• You have the world’s consent to be beautiful
• If this was an Olympic Sport, I'd be world champion
• We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens.
• This is not a joke. It won't be easy. We will rule the world.
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• I'd rather be lost than be where you call home
• the world will be remade in our image
• How To Be Happy In A Sad, Sad World
• No place I'd rather be
• the world is made of only one thing, and the other one is perspective
• There can be only one
• May the world be a better place when I wake up
• How to be a polite smoker in a non-smoking world
• World peace is a beautiful dream that will never be achieved by the human race
• the world is big enough for all of us. it has to be.
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• and the world may be long for you
• in a world where the bar keeps seeming to be lower, where stupidity has got a foothold, there is room for excellence and uncompromising vision
• 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
• Unloved, yeah. But I'd rather be cursed than poisoned.
• i kept dreaming of a world i thought i'd never see, and then one day i got in
• i want to help. i want to be a part of something that will change the world.
• in a world of predator and prey, i choose to be a glassmaker
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• After today, for two people, the world will never be the same
• In a world of blind people, c would be the speed of sound
• Submissions for the "I'd Rather Be Noding" Bumper Sticker
• I couldn't possibly be the only one who doesn't see empathy as a curse
• only one justified teardrop ever in the history of the world
• On second thought, maybe I'd rather be dangerous
• The World (as it ought to be)
• Be the change you want to see in the world
• he thought it would be great fun to conquer the world
• When I look into her eyes, I no longer care about what the world thinks. This is what it feels like to be alive.
• I can only pray that, when I finally leave, I will have done little enough damage to be totally forgotten
• It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
• As nuclear explosions ravage New York City, the apartment block residents rush downstairs to escape the building, only to be forced into the basement by further explosions.
• Then the walls started to bleed again and I just KNEW I'd be the one cleaning it up.
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• Be the monstrous wave of despair and destruction you want to see in the world
• Would I have hid myself away if I had known I'd never be found?
• It can be days before the vision passes and I see the world plainly again.
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• Friend, you have a lot to learn if you think loving me would be a bad idea.
• only cold little handheld mirrors in the wee hours of the morning can be trusted
• Meditation doesn't have to be spiritual
• Having knowledge is not the same as having understanding. You can have all the pieces in front of you and still not be able to put the puzzle together.
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• Wanting only to be the honeysuckle to her butterfly
• Why I'd like to be a free-range hen
• All the terrible disadvantages an invisible man would have in the world
• only then will we be safe from each other
• We tend to judge people only on what we perceive them to be
• Sometimes you have to be your own supervillain
• Do not be surprised, I have always been your canvas, Argenis.
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• You will be a tear-stained diary entry, and it will have been all your fault
• Maybe even this will one day be pleasant to recall
• The only thing to be truthfully said about tomorrow is that it changes everything
• it wouldn't be so bad if people like you would have become ghosts too
• Dammit, those barricades have to be around here somewhere!
• If you take me home tonight I know that we will kiss, and one of us will fall in love and it will be a mess.
• Proposed: The only way for a woman to achieve true ecstacy is to allow herself to be taken by the Goat God in the Circle of Candles on a moonless night
• Madmen have a world all their own
• don't be afraid, it's only angels bowling
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• you have to be close to catch it
• It will be a hot day and these two ice cubes. We will melt, become one.
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• AT Fields can only be penetrated spiritually Fallacy
• I don't see Heinlein writing books proposing that only farmers should be allowed to vote
• All the things she had at one point wanted to be
• If I could be anything I'd be water and I'd be wild about it.
• Don't ever lie. If you lie to your friends, they won't trust you, and you'll have nothing, and you'll never be safe.
• One Day I Will Be The Summer
• painting stars that have come to be
• No one can be in two places at once
• And it's one more good thing that will never be again
• Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
• I Do Not Want To Be One Of Those People
• your struggle must be a terrible fire, which only grows as you pass it to others
• I'd Love to be a Fairy's Bride
• only the named can be destroyed
• Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
• Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
• Your radical ideas about New World Orders have already occurred to others
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic
• You do not have a right to not be offended
• Advantages an invisible man would have in the world
• If you budget one more year for this behaviour, it will certainly be the last year of your life
• If murder is outlawed, only outlaws will be murderers
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• If you have to scream to be heard, you have nothing profound to say
• rather be in Philadelphia
• I'd Love to be a Fairy's Child
• If you weren't gay, I think I'd be in love with you
• No one can be unhappy with a fresh box of crayons
• Any function can be represented as the sum of an even function and an odd one
• One should be careful to whom he gives the finger
• How to be the first one off the line at a 4-way stop sign
• I'm not one to be had for the wanting, Sir
• The music makes one's blood boil and long to be in some obscure, untamed place with the one you love
• it would be hilarious if only
• painting stars that have not come to be
• Death may be the only goal you ever achieve
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil -- for tonight I have broken my own heart, and my soul is too empty to be afraid.
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• No one wants to be a nihilist
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Not all disagreements have to be a flame war
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• pity be for those with one thing to say
• it's good for me to go and not have there be words
• I'd just as soon be a ghost
• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• how loud to you have to be to put out a housefire with just your voice
• I have what I believe to be a photo of Olympia Dukakis in her underwear in 1977
• I have to admit, I always wanted to be a necromancer
• Are you searching to be inspired? Or are you searching to be amused, be content, be happy? What could you have been?
• if a cycle can be broken, then it will have been worth it
• things that no one controls and can't be sold
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• if I could play god there'd be one less child abuser
• Words that only have one context
• I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• Long Haired Preachers
• Why do I have to call ONLY ONE country "home?"
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• The Big Bang as the origin of matter
• asking only to be stared into, offering no reward
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• trying to complete some archaic sub-quest, only to be drawn into some stupid battle every five steps
• You don't have to be a vegetarian to like vegetarian food
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
• How to tell whether a figure can be drawn in one stroke
• Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one
• Ah, if you should turn out to be a fairy I don't think I'd put you in a jar
• Limiting the number of fuzzy shirts allowed in one room
• If the field of AI had tried building footballers rather than chess players, how might it be different today?
• You have to be in hell to see heaven
• After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
• When you know things are just meant to be
• I have good reason to be thirsty today
• No One Here Is Ever Going to be President: Noders raise things in the city where things fall down
• One need not be a chamber to be haunted
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• there are some things that can only be said at the top of a ferris wheel
• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
• I'd already be a Buddhist if it weren't for all these damn spiders
• I'll never be the one to force my parents into an "old age" home
• I have always considered warnings to be a kind of dare
• One more robot learns to be something more than a machine.
• Strangers have been, and continue to be, very kind to me. Thank you.
• I have a feeling it will be in my dreams
• Have we done enough to be saved?
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• One day, E2 will attain sentience. And I'll be there to see it.
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• A Scene That, To Understand, One Must Be A Led Zeppelin Fan
• The woman had a carnivorous frenzy which could only be soothed by the succulent sirloin
• Rebeca Martinez
• Be a model or just look like one
• Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
• All you have to do is listen, and be ready.
• When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be
• You have the right to be angry at me for breaking my heart.
• 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.
• I have to wonder how this can be a metaphor for my life
• 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.
• i seem to only be attracted to seamasters
• No one can be totally logical
• To be hoist by one's own petard

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