Quotes with why

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  • Dale Carnegie Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Ahmed Chalabi Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
    Ahmed Chalabi
    Iraqi politician (1944 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Kruger Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Erica Jong Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Robert Frost Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Antonio Vieira Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
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  • Carl Forti Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.
    Carl Forti
    American Republican Party strategist (1972 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Omar Khayyam Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Ben Miles Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
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  • Bill Laswell Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Annie Dillard Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Bill Bradley Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is...
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carrie Donovan Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.
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  • Betty Buckley Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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