Findings:

• Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
• Ghosts can laugh, but they're already dead
• I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
• some nodeshells are not titles but micronodes
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• I may have cellulite, but I can still put my ankles behind my head
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• How can a good Buddhist work in advertising?
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
• Snowy reception on some channels but not on others
• A solution to spam (which doesn't work, but nice try)
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• 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.
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• 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.
• Can anyone bring me some Shazbot?!
• I'm so sorry my brain works that way
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
• In which Human Craig's stratagem works TOO well.
• Noises made by birds in different languages
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
• You can run, but you can't hide
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• You can pulp a story but you cannot destroy an idea.
• Yeah I can love my fellow man; but I'm damned if I'll love yours.
• But can you still cry like a child?
• the water can kill you, but the beer won’t
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• Santa's festive fear mongering wasn't going as well as he'd hoped, but the other Santa and I were enjoying the gingerbread.
• we can give up, but the world never will
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• Effort on behalf of those we love is not work, but prayer disguised
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• I'm not sick but I'm not well
• 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.
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• But can a robot love.
• don't work from ideas toward reality, but from reality toward ideas
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• What can a reed do but sway about and love?
• Some people can just hold onto the things that really matter to them
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging. Sort of like some men I know
• Can you spare some change?
• Damn beer can taste exceptional some times!
• No model is true, but some models are useful
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Ted Chiang
• I understand. As far as I can go, we'll go together.
• You can bear arms, but you can't bare breasts
• same same, but different
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• They may take our car keys, but they'll never take our freedom
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• You can, but you may not
• All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is bastards
• I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
• different but equal
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• Actually, I went to bed this morning, sometime, but we can gloss over that.
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• you can close your eyes but not your ears
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• Everything is relative, but some things are more relative than others
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
• but with words we can create anything
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• some people lie but they're looking for magic
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• you can use a lot of words and ideas to try to hide it, but you're always making a choice between love and hate
• You can teach people truth, but it's harder to teach them to cope with truth.
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• there are some things that can only be said at the top of a ferris wheel
• You can work in the pit
• If you look hard enough, you can see Satan and his works everywhere
• I don't suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us
• Some days are magic, and I can do anything. The other days, I just have to wait, and hope it comes back.
• It has been claimed that some or all of this article or section is incoherent and not understandable, and should possibly be reworded if the intended meaning can be determined
• Adapting literary works for film and television
• beliefs can change the world, but they can't change reality
• Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
• like you're blind but still can see
• How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?
• it's a pity we only appreciate some once they're gone, when they can no longer defend themselves
• Forming a bond with someone or something can be liberating in some ways. It can be limiting in other ways, until you unbind.
• How can you win some? How can you win some? How can you win some? How can you win some? How can you win some? How can you win some?
• The Mynah Birds
• King of Birds
• Ant bird
• Baltimore bird
• Bird of paradise
• Bird pepper
• Bird's nest
• Bower bird
• Sea bird
• Water bird
• Wheatsel bird
• Whidah bird
• Whydah bird
• Widow bird
• The Cat and the Birds
• Geezer bird
• Names for groups of birds
• The frozen north will hatch a flightless bird
• Green Bird
• As Birds bring forth the Sun
• Why Do Birds Sing?
• The Birds
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Birds of America
• Stymphalian Birds
• Whence Comes This Rush Of Wings? (Carol of the Birds)
• Yellow Bird
• frigate bird
• Earth is the eighth morning, folded against the week's work
• Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak
• The First Birds and the First Mammals
• The Bird of the Difficult Eye
• Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
• White Bird
• First Fiction: Birds
• Larry Bird Exception
• bird repellant
• These are the days when birds come back
• Bird shit on your head
• Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
• The Little Bird
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• Early Bird
• Conversation overheard between birds
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
• Quetzal Birds in Love
• impossible birds
• Australian birds
• The Gertrude Bird
• Boatswain bird

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