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  • Anna Freud Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Carl Lewis 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.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver 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.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ 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?
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Woody Allen Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Carrie Snow Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
    Carrie Snow
     
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  • Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Camille Paglia 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.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lord George Byron 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?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mary Daly Why indeed must ''God'' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
    Mary Daly
    American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian (1928 - 2010)
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  • Asa Gray 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?
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • August Strindberg 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.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld 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?
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Mark Twain Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Hicks 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?
    Source: Chicago 91
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Castle Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Ben Shapiro Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Jim Bakker Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
    Jim Bakker
    American televangelist (1940 - )
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  • Ovid Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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