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Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation--it either takes or it doesn't--and when you explain to somebody what it is and… — Seth Klarman
All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't… — Bruce Coville
It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush… — Peter Beinart
Why is fear part of earth life? Perhaps our Heavenly Father’s greatest hope is that through our fears we may choose to turn to Him.… — Virginia H. Pearce
Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always. — Alex Linder
God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for… — Richard Kadrey
I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I… — Josef Koudelka
Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear… — Megan McArdle
If we could tell a film, then why make a film? — Jafar Panahi
This is the United spirit: you can play everywhere. If you want to win, you have to accept it. You can see Antonio Valencia playing… — Patrice Evra
In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person… — Mary Ruefle
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why,… — P.B. Kerr
Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and… — George Gascon
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and… — Alexander Nehamas
Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday. — Yoko Ogawa
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself,… — Andre Comte-Sponville
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? — Gary D. Schmidt
So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere. — Albert Hadley
The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first? — Jack Burke, Jr.
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined.… — Unknown Author
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more… — Etel Adnan
When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters… — Reyner Banham
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the… — Unknown Author
No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science ignores them. But… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku

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