Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "It is not your duty to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it"

• don't work from ideas toward reality, but from reality toward ideas
• The Complete Works of James Baldwin
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• Y2K from people who worked that night
• Good from far, but far from good
• Getting free pizza
• A solution to spam (which doesn't work, but nice try)
• It isn’t fun to hide. But it will protect you from lightning.
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• Duty is weightier than a mountain, but death is lighter than a feather
• Duty Free
• The people from work table
• Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• We enjoy a quiet but satisfying yuletide until people from the social services come to release us
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• Effort on behalf of those we love is not work, but prayer disguised
• Where I'm Calling From, A Grand Don't Come For Free
• Ten ways to free yourself from the tyranny of your mouse
• Rockman Complete Works
• Get home from work
• works from A Quest for Local Knowledge (category)
• if a bird is never free from his cage, then his world is only his name
• Duty Free Shop
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• Women are from Earth, but men only wander it
• Free but worthless shares
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• I tried to laugh but my photocells were cold from the night
• He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• But what's stopping me from staring at the stars now?
• it won't kill you to breathe it in, but it may change you, years from now
• 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.
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• The Complete Master Works
• The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
• Finding free anime on the internet
• Free yourself from fear
• Getting free computer parts
• Duty Free (user)
• The Complete Works of John Donne
• How to work an airplane toilet door lock from the outside
• How to steal from your work
• Episodic bursts of kindness and charity don’t free one from culpability
• Inspiration from the Heart: The Collected Works of Mary Turner
• How to node from work
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• not running from, but going to
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
• What is real but compassion as we move from birth to death
• But who codes the coders?
• Everything But the Girl
• butt naked
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• but
• butt set
• Mr. Butts
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• I want to watch pornography, but my pornograph is broken
• Every Which Way but Loose
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• Butt hinge
• Butt joint
• We have nothing to fear but fear itself
• But I got a B- in penmanship
• But thanks for playing
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• But my computer really IS possessed
• 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
• Your Method Works
• anti-abortion but pro-choice
• Straight but not Narrow
• I like electronic music, but I am not a raver.
• The odds are good, but the goods are odd
• Scrabble words with a Q but no U
• Monkey Butt!
• butt breath
• I'm not anorexic, but I'm working on it
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Japanese puns that are not funny but at least are puns
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• You wouldn't know it, but I think you're achingly beautiful
• Something Childish, but Very Natural
• Genuine but Insignificant Cause
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• I have a most elegant proof of that, but this node is too small to contain it
• Sororities are nothing but social crutches
• butts ARE litter
• You may think I'm lying, but it's true
• But what are they really thinking?
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• 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
• BQN: But, one for all?
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Sexist jokes
• Yard Butt
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• Not really by the rules, but...
• No, but I'll have a beer
• 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.
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• It never rains but it pours
• What to do if you earn a lot but hate your job
• I'm not a rocket scientist, but
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• I don't want to wear your skin, but I will if I catch you!
• General Butt Naked
• I am capable of poetic language, but not always of poetry
• I'm gay, but I'm not sure it's genetic
• Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription
• It hasn't been so long, but
• Push butt: Rub hands under arm
• It did not but, I think.. it will spill hope
• I love my apartment but hate the management.
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• We'd kill him, but it probably wouldn't solve anything
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• History is not just for the past, but for the future
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• butt rot
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• Love is but a Fleeing Spec of Emotion
• The nothin' but coal for you, geek e2 westside holiday gathering and lan party
• Talking like a pirate is fun but annoys people
• Snowy reception on some channels but not on others
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• How to develop one side of your butt and still have the other one flabby
• The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
• Keep doing it, but don't call it that
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• My Mother and I Love Your Butt
• You know to me she's but a fetish
• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• If you can't help it, fuck it!
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train

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