Why Quotes
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Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We…
— Al Gore
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
— Charles Darwin
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The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it…
— Michio Kaku
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I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
— Christiana Figueres
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Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need direct liability for…
— Kumi Naidoo
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I saw this girl, she looks so sweet, I wonder why, I'm so scared to meet. I think about her everyday, I wake, I sleep…
— Unknown Author
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Why can' t everyone just smoke like me? Just gimme a quiet place and lemme roll my weed, where ain't nobody in my business don't…
— Wiz Khalifa
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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
— William Blake
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I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
— Douglas Feaver
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Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find…
— Abraham Maslow
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They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a…
— Julius Malema
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have…
— John Berger
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Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty…
— Ron Paul
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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots…
— Robert Walpole
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
— Aristotle
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You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing.…
— Milton Friedman
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What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is…
— Milton Friedman
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That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come…
— Milton Friedman
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Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?
— Unknown Author
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