Why Quotes
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have…
— Herman Melville
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If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
— Mary Astell
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Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.
— Jennifer Lawrence
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It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much…
— Linus Pauling
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One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among…
— Nathanael Emmons
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A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
— Frank A. Clark
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Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the…
— Robert A. Cook
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There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by…
— Hazel Scott
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There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
— Karen Horney
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
— George Bernard Shaw
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in…
— Oscar Wilde
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Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL…
— Esther Hicks
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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are…
— Elie Wiesel
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to…
— Lord Acton
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Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
— Paul Harvey
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
— Samuel Johnson
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I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have…
— John Suckling
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
— Jesse Jackson
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