Quotes with why

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  • Ogden Nash Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Edgar Bergen Hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
    Source: Goldman - Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes (2001)
    Edgar Bergen
    American actor and comedian (1903 - 1978)
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  • Charlie McCarthy Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
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  • Robert Wilson Hedonic Engineering - The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke a day sir? Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
    Source: Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Lily Tomlin I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Martin Luther King I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Audre Lorde I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Fred A. Allen I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • John Cage I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Dolly Parton I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • George S. Patton I do not fear failure. I only fear the ''slowing up'' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ''Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?''
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Adolf Hitler I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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