Quotes with why

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  • Bertrand Russell Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl Sandburg Why is there always a secret singing When a lawyer cashes in? Why does a hearse horse snicker Hauling a lawyer away?
    Source: The Lawyers Know Too Much l. 16 (1920)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • John Barrymore Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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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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  • Jane Austen Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Diogenes of Sinope Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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  • Steven Spielberg Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Don Herold Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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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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  • Boyle Roche Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Eliza Cook Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • William James Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Charles L. Allen Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
    Charles L. Allen
    American ordained United Methodist minister (1913 - 2005)
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  • Mark Twain Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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