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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
    ― Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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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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  • Bryant H. McGill Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
    ― Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
    Source: Rant in E-Minor
    ― Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Berger Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
    ― Thomas Berger
     
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  • James Thurber Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?
    ― James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Helen Rowland Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
    ― Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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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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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?
    ― Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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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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  • Stephen Hawking Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
    Source: A Brief History of Time (1988)
    ― Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Kin Hubbard Why doesn't the fellow who says, ''I'm no speechmaker'' let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
    ― Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Tom Hopkins Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.
    ― Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Nora Joyce Why don’t you write books people can read?
    ― Nora Joyce
     
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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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  • Carmen Busquets Why give a million dollars to someone if they have not proved that they can make a million dollars?
    ― Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
    ― Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Albrecht Durer Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
    ― Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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