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One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there. — Ronald Blythe
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in… — Walter E. Williams
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes. — Roger McDonald
... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and… — Lewis Goldberg
If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever… — Thomas Woods
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass… — Archibald Garrod
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science.… — Robert S. Mulliken
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' — Erwin Chargaff
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why… — Dmitri Mendeleev
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.… — Nelson Goodman
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as… — John Constable
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's… — Giuseppe Peano
If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live… — Ambrose
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the… — Albert Oehlen
I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to… — Dolores O'Riordan
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these… — Georg Baselitz
We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe.… — Duane Gish
Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental… — Mark Thomas

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