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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?
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Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
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Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Why indeed must ''God'' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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