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In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why… — Betty Williams
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one… — Thomas Jefferson
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and… — Joseph Campbell
Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best… — Harrison Owen
If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could… — Peter Lynch
You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to… — Charlie Munger
My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me"… — Fred Rogers
As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the… — Jim Cramer
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be… — James A. Michener
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with. — Ansen Dibell
These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position. — Drake
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is… — Kurt Vonnegut
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar… — Beryl Bainbridge
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that… — Arthur David Beaty
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher… — Janet Burroway
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not… — Ernest Hemingway
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse… — Alan Cohen

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