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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly… — Molly Ivins
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes? — Nellie L. McClung
If Harry Potter's so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldnt need a broomstick to cling onto. — Frankie Boyle
After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you… — M. John Harrison
A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine.… — Kent Haruf
You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain… — Lydia Davis
I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they… — Jerry Seinfeld
Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make… — Thomas Bangalter
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, — Mstislav Rostropovich
Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to… — Mike Fitzpatrick
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch… — Terence McKenna
Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with… — Kate Chopin
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere. — Greg Gutfeld
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is… — Scott Harshbarger
It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS! — Curt Schilling
That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have? — Lesley Howarth
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try… — Steve Keen
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on… — Richard D. Wolff
I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So… — Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future. — Mary Cassatt
So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental… — Amy Goodman
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of… — Shirley Jackson
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? — John Keegan
See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the revolving of nature.… — Eiji Yoshikawa
I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write. — August Wilson

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