Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.'"

• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• Ground rush
• "It gets better" or so they say.
• Horses: do they love us back?
• Now you do what they told ya
• I would a thousand times rather have had a simple cheap sandwich with a friend
• And They Didn't Die
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• Honk if your horn is broken: Where do they get these stupid stickers?
• Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• My kisses, they do not fade
• Old men never die, they just spout poetry
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• How would you like it if they took your subculture and made it a theme night?
• Live so that they cry when you're born and laugh when you die
• Wedding rings and half-born ideas you lose down the toilet. Why do they go?
• they don't know what they'd do without me
• just because they never bothered to really do
• Words said in anger are, in the end, just words. They only become daggers if you let them.
• Where do they go when they walk out and leave the body behind?
• They Had No Poet
• We don't have time. Not like they do.
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• They die obscurely under assumed names
• You can learn a lot about someone from the way they die
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• You stole what they would have given you
• What would aliens think if they talked to an average western human being?
• If they would only choose to hear it
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• Reasons toilets swirl the way they do
• Things that a fetus would say if it could speak
• Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
• Shall I tell you stories of other stars: stars that you love, that deserve your love. Stars that do not disappoint, and disgust, and disgrace your love. Oh, I have hope they exist for your sake!
• Where do they go? (The words unsaid)
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• The goggles, they do nothing
• We all know what beautiful eyes are like, what they do to you.
• What Happened to You, What'd They Do, Billy Lee
• they carry but they do not understand
• Those torpedo bombers didn't do a darn thing did they
• Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
• They had been expecting me
• What Happened to You, What'd They Do, Billy Lee (for Cormac McCarthy)
• The Fun They Had
• They had built the Unrecordable Sculpture again last night
• They said no
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• the stars would weep if they knew of our existence
• It's hard to know what to say when a friend's parent they always hated suddenly dies
• If they put you in a copy machine, an ass would come out
• They knew what our pain would be.
• They did not forgive us, she thought. We will surely die.
• When you kill people they die
• People don't flail when they die
• I joined the Army in order to die, and they sent me where I could die
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• The Ten Commandments revised
• I hope they kill me while I'm standing here, so I can die happy.
• Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
• Kids aren't cute; they just do stupid things
• Dumb things people wish they hadn't said
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• I do not think that they will sing to me.
• The "Which would you rather do?" Game
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• B Battery
• Why do gays think that men would rather give a blow job than sex to a complete stranger?
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• Where do they keep the car keys when they transport cars?
• Do they care it's Christmas time?
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• What do stars do? They shine.
• No One Ever Listens Do They, 'Lyssa
• If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread
• how do they feel, those unblinking eyes?
• Do they know those days are golden? Build a rocket boys
• Words which mean more than you think they do at the time.
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• It was better before they came
• Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal
• What would a universal Turing machine do?
• What would you do with $86,400 a day?
• Except When To Do So Would Injure Them Or Others
• I've had better hugs from wind gusts and dead people
• What do you say to someone who has just had an abortion?
• If the Windows source code was leaked, what do you think would happen?
• if you had it as an option, would you take it?
• If we had a more developed tailbone, would we wag our tail?
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• When we kiss I can hear your thoughts, so I would rather we didn't
• Man, I could do some amazing things if I just had the time resources and inclination
• What would EDB do?
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• What would Brian Boitano do?
• I would do that for you
• What Would Jackie Chan Do?
• Treatment of corporations
• poems I had to do for a school project
• What Would Judas Do?
• If I were Twenty-One I would "do the next thing"
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• Would I have hid myself away if I had known I'd never be found?
• We would rather drown in a sea of tears than alter our beliefs.
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• A determination to do better than
• What Would Buddha Do?
• What Would You Do For a Klondike® Bar?
• Living till I die? As if I had a choice.
• What would Machiavelli do?
• "Do Not Cheer, Men Are Dying," Said Capt. Phillips, In The Spanish-American War
• What would Tyler Durden do?
• "It was wrong to do this," said the angel
• What Would You Do?
• What would you do if you weren't afraid?
• What I would do If I knew what was good for me
• Oh, Better Far to Live and Die
• What would Feynman do?
• If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would pay!
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• If I had the nerve, I would ask you
• 'Tis better to die as a lion than to live 1000 years as a dog
• If the field of AI had tried building footballers rather than chess players, how might it be different today?
• I would have cooled this if you had written it
• I would have leapt at the innuendo you had strewn at my feet.
• He had something to say. He said it.
• If it had been able to, the light would have smiled
• If I had the money I would get lost. God knows I have the time.
• How do we know dog biscuits are "now better tasting!"?
• I would have attempted to draw her if she had stayed that way.
• You had better...!!!
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• If you were team captain in a pick-up game of baseball and had Jesus Christ on your team, what position would you play him?
• Why do children have to die?
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• Let's do some living, after we die
• What would the Lord of Eternal Darkness do?
• What would Solaris do?
• I must die or be better
• What Would John Rocker Do?
• What Would Jesus Do?
• if all of your nerves fired in reverse, you would die instantly
• Undertaker, Nortel sells better than you do
• What Would Cthulhu Do?
• Do you take it I would astonish? Does the daylight astonish?
• What Would Heinlein Do?
• And would you do this thing for me? Land softly, yeah, land softly
• The good crew will know what its captain would do
• And had to do with goblin merchant men
• Such knowledge would do nothing more than haunt your dreams and frustrate your days
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• What would Nietzsche do?
• What I really would like to do is put Everything into a drawer
• had better
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
• I've got better things to do than drugs
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• I know better than you do that I've got a hold on you.
• Better things to do? (e2poll)

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