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• The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  War, Organization, People

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• In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

  Chris Colfer

  Believe, Mean, Winner

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• I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am.

  Adam Levine

  California, People, Naked

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

  Brad Paisley

  Trying, Mindset, Changed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why not me?' and realized that I might be able to help other kids with diabetes.

  Nick Jonas

  Kids, Emotional, Helping Others

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• I would love to do a movie naked; it would be beautiful. No one dares make that kind of film today. They did it in the 1930s in an arty way, so why not now?

  Megan Fox

  Beautiful, Naked, Would Be

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• Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Viruses, Agents

  "The dead and the quick" by Simon Pegg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Morning, Humor

  "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.

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• I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hands, Friendly, Cactus

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• Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result.

  Richard Hamming

  Change, Science, Important

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!

  Claire Williams

  Butterfly, Routes, Scenic

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• If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Skin Color, Suffering

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• "I can't sleep" answered the nervous one.
  "Why not?" asked the friend.
  "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
  "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Sleep, Thinking, Investing

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• The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Eye, Cameras

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive... Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Class, Two

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• All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

  Lawrence Summers

  Taxation, Pollution, Good Things

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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 a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

  Milton Friedman

  Differences, People, Answers

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• 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 generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mean, Player, Hands

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• I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

  Andrew Stanton

  Independent, Want, Able

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• Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Alcohol, Righteous

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• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?

  Hafez

  Jobs, People, Worry

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• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Age, Desire

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• Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

  Kristin Cashore

  Book, Writing, Space

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Flower

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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