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• Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Doe, Cheetahs, Should

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• Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

  Charles Lamb

  Spring, Heart, Simplicity

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1854). “Talfourd, T. N. Life and letters”, p.38

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• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

  Kate Millett

  Depression, Voice, Anecdotes

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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• I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

  William Shakespeare

  Depression, Grief, Mad

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

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• What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Life, Long, Should

  Joseph Brodsky, “May 24, 1980”

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• Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine.

  Daniel Nielsen

  Funny, Funeral, Should

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• Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

  Rumi

  Strong, Life Changing, Hands

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• If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

  Richard Baxter

  Inspirational Life, Long, May

  "Hymns of the church militant". Book by Anna Bartlett Warner, 1858.

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• We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

  Phil Jones

  Years, Data, Trying

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• Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Believe, Moving, People

  "Malala Yousafzai addresses Harvard audience" by Brian MacQuarrie, www.bostonglobe.com. September 28, 2013.

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• I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

  Ruth Rendell

  Writing, People, Letters

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• The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I sacrifice myself? I am a scientist, I am supposed to be working on scientific things, so I don't need to put myself at risk by talking about these possibilities." And I have said that perhaps I'm just stubborn... I have said "I don't like anybody to tell me what to do or to think, except Mrs. Pauling."

  Linus Pauling

  Sacrifice, Science, Thinking

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• Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?

  Doc Holliday

  Cheating, Cowboy, Should

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• I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hurt, Uncles, Animal

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• Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Self Confidence, Winning

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• Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  School, Men, Understanding

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• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  Gemma Galgani

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Prey

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• I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

  Ralph Ellison

  Denial, Invisibility, Way

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.39, Vintage

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• My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'

  Michele Bachmann

  Husband, Hate, Law

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2011.

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• I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?

  Robert Reich

  Country, Jobs, Business

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• Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, White, Want

  Nation, 23 June 1926

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• Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

  Joseph Estrada

  Firsts, Constitution, Guilty

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• I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

  Gillian Flynn

  Despair, Degrees, Bottles

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• Should I eat this or should I eat this? Well, I'll have to eat both!

  Lewis Black

  Should, Wells

  "Rules of Enragement". Comedy album, 2003.

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