Quotes with son—and

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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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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Goldwyn Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Abraham Cowley Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover
    And not to me, thy no less silent lover?
    Source: Bathing in the River.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ben Folds Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bart Stupak Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Boo Weekley Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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