Quotes 641 till 660 of 736.
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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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.
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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?
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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Why indeed must ''God'' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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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?
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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.
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Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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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?
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.
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Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?
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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
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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
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