Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "It's certainly not exhaustive but these really are less common than you'd think"

• melancholy is good, but not every single day, and certainly not more than two days in a row
• I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
• this seems less than fair
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• These Golden Years are really tarnished
• Meteors are not needed less than mountains
• I cannot help but think in scenes and paint in memories
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• Growing grapes is harder than making wine. You will discover this, but it might take a lifetime.
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• less than stellar
• If you think hugs are better than drugs, you haven't tried LSD
• We've come from too far away, I think, to really make much contact.
• Less Than Jake: A Play
• Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
• My heart feels filled with warm water when I think of these things
• The music in my head is too loud to think about anything but you
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• 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.
• Duty is weightier than a mountain, but death is lighter than a feather
• The narcissism of the performer is less than the narcissism of the audience
• Less Than Human
• Your enthralling radiance lights the way for those less lucid than you
• How to seem smarter than you really are
• I can't think of anyone who could appreciate more than me your eyes and your voice
• Running an information technology department is harder than you think
• Treatment of corporations
• less than three (user)
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• But my computer really IS possessed
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your other, less ludicrous opinion that glitch speed runs are pointless.
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Everything is relative, but some things are more relative than others
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
• these relics rise like steam and each disseminate encircling like a halo'd trajectory, a common crowd, assembling
• 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?
• Guilt is a hard thing to bury but it’s a really easy thing to dig up
• Libertarianism sounds good on paper, but is it really?
• In The Duchess Of Malfi, the horrors of act IV, scene i are less important than the characters' reaction to them
• Why female athletes are paid less than their male counterparts
• More than a petal, less than a bouquet
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• Less Than Zero Sum Game
• The whole is less than the sum of it's parts
• Three Puerto Rican girls walked by like accordion music under the trees, looking like they'd accept nothing less than perfection.
• What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
• Why do gays think that men would rather give a blow job than sex to a complete stranger?
• Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.
• You wouldn't know it, but I think you're achingly beautiful
• I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.
• I can think of worse things than to die like a dog
• Are these numbers really random?
• Vector Angles less than 90 Degrees
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• Sororities are nothing but social crutches
• You may think I'm lying, but it's true
• But what are they really thinking?
• You'd think a cookie killed his dog
• And they never think these tools will fail.
• Sexist jokes
• Not really by the rules, but...
• "This happens more than you think," the agency said in a social media post.
• Think there's too much violence in society today? Maybe, but consider this:
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• Perhaps not forever, but longer than usual
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• I Think I'm a Pervert, But I'm Totally Over It
• love me less, but, love me for a long time...!
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• You Might Think It's Sexual But Actually It's Not
• On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned
• 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.
• Not very sterile, but better than dead
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• but these are only ripples
• Unloved, yeah. But I'd rather be cursed than poisoned.
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• I think I will break but I mend
• less than
• Less Than Jake
• He thinks I don't, but I do
• we're all here to die. but if you think that's all it is, you still have the bag on your head.
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• I'm not religious, but I think I have a close relationship with God
• less fun than the packaging
• Why Women Are Paid Less Than Men
• Teaching kids greater and less than
• I cannot say I love you less than the stars
• Smoke that cigarette fast, baby. You've got less time than me.
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• your itinerary for nothing less than the future
• It did not but, I think.. it will spill hope
• less elegant than grace
• Less than three
• Less Than Zero
• If I really loved you, you'd never get so close.
• If you really loved me
• How to seem dumber than you really are
• It seemed so real, to me these are more than wasted days
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• Ack! Am I really related to these people?
• Do you really think voting for a third party candidate is going to "send a message"?
• Sometimes I think you love that doomsday machine more than you love me.
• Go then. There are other worlds than these.
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• Everything is more complicated than you think
• these are no more your dreams than this is your sky
• The beer is stronger than you think
• play dumb
• Think of something you always wanted to do, but are afraid of. Do it today.
• Musical Terms Applying to Percussion that Sound Dirty But Really Aren't
• your roots run deep, and they are stronger than you think
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Words which mean more than you think they do at the time.
• Taking a wrong turn in Connecticut can be worse than you think
• Video Games Influence You More Than You Think
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
• But who codes the coders?
• butt naked
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• Mr. Butts
• There is no god but God
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• Butt hinge
• Butt joint
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• Butt crack of dawn
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Things people put up their butts
• Project B.U.T.T.
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• I have a most elegant proof of that, but this node is too small to contain it
• butts ARE litter
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• But I digress
• If I could slip this skin but for a moment
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Yard Butt
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• No, but I'll have a beer
• Free but worthless shares
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• I know you are, but what am I?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• My Mother and I Love Your Butt
• If you've got something to do, you'd better fucking do it.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way

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