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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems… — Aristotle
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid… — Terrell Owens
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because… — Oscar Wilde
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin… — Enid Bagnold
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not… — Dennis Kucinich
I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a… — Warren Buffett
In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East - because no mother… — Rajneesh
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old… — Rajneesh
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to… — Ajahn Chah
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? — Pablo Picasso
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. — Andy Warhol
How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, 'My top priority for the Jewish people… — John Hagee
I did not know from a scientific perspective why I did not believe in evolution - but I knew from a Biblical perspective it had… — Ken Ham
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves. — Bill Maher
Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on the adversarial model. To be… — Tim Field
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out… — Peter Kreeft
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our… — C.S. Lewis

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