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Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely… — Immanuel Kant
Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them,… — John G. Lake
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy… — Swami Vivekananda
Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in… — Dr. Seuss
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls. — Bob Brown
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?. — Charles Spurgeon
Though it's a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not even a raised voice… — Yash Chopra
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell. — Josh Billings
Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a… — Saint John Chrysostom
I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.' — Joan Rivers
A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be… — Richard Rohr
Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that… — Sheila Jackson Lee
If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery… — Rajneesh
Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling… — Rajneesh
That is why he appears to us who are deeply life-hypnotized, obsessed about being alive in any way, as life-negating. To us, just to be… — Rajneesh
Why was I born, if it wasn't forever? — Eugene Ionesco
You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was… — Chevy Chase
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own,… — Steve Perry
If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'. — Jordan Belfort

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