Quotes with why

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  • Bubba Watson People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Carolyn Chute People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Bubba Watson People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Anne Rice People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Richard P. Feynman Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Winston Churchill Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Walter Bagehot Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • John Selden Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Billy Beane Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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