Quotes with why

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  • Berry Gordy The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
    Berry Gordy
    American record executive, record and film producer and songwriter (1929 - )
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  • Ann Rule The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Arthur Henderson The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Mark Twain There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Bryan White There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Bill Klem There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Robert Kennedy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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  • Alan Cohen There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Betty Grable There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • Wallace Stevens There can be no poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Boris Vallejo There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.
    Boris Vallejo
     
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  • Bram Stoker There is a reason why all things are as they are.
    Source: Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Mother Teresa There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bobby Seale There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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