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Avoid People and Situations That Upset You. Those things, people, situations, and experiences you dont like--avoid them. Stay away. Walk away. Do something else. Some might call this cowardly. I call it smart. The world is brimming with things, people, and experiences. We will never experience all of them if we live to be 10,000. So why not associate with the ones that naturally please you?

Peter McWilliams

Smart, People, Upset

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Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

Richard Thaler

Money, Ties, Gold

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Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

Ana Castillo

Giving, Diversity, Going Away

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One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Real, Sight, Vision

Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Nellie McKay

New York, Cities, Old Buildings

"Modern Music Masters: Nellie McKay". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 3, 2010.

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Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

Lena Dunham

Queens, Drama, Individuality

Twitter post from Jun 01, 2014

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Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Punishment, Self, Intellectual

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.304, UPNE

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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

Ben Stein

Telling The Truth, Stealing, There Is No God

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To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here.

Richard Le Gallienne

Men, Heaven, Doubt

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Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Stendhal

Suicide, Grief, Feelings

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What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Believe, Cat, Two

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I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

Emily Dickinson

Mean, Knowing, Heaven

Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

Tim LaHaye

Scary, Church, Unions

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

George Bernard Shaw

Giving, Trials, Christianity

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3158, e-artnow

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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

Seneca the Younger

Kindness, Grateful, Men

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We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

Nicolas Chamfort

Sweet, Medicine, Moral

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I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Stupid, Coffee, Thinking

Source: www.spiegel.de

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My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

Yoko Ono

Fun, Giving, Trying

Interview with Takashi Murakami, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.

Neko Case

Fun, Stupid, Mean

Source: www.avclub.com

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According to the supermarkets, there is no such thing as “out of season.” Berries in the middle of February? Why not? Seafood flown in from Japan? Sure. While it all adds up to appetizing and varied meals throughout the year, regardless of the weather, it comes with a price tag - both ethical and financial.

Homaro Cantu

Japan, Years, Price Tag

"Zero Mile Gastronomy: This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Garden" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

Don Rickles

Fun, Black, Yeah

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Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

Ty Cobb

Jobs, Fighting, Men

Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Success, Lying, Simple

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My answer is, why not? ... It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I had and what made him good was his confidence in what he did. I believe that I'm going
to be a good coach.

Wayne Gretzky

Believe, Best Coaches, Answers

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It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses? Because, you will say, the Bible says so. The Koran says, that God spake unto Mahomet, do you believe that too? No. Why not? Because, you will say, you do not believe it; and so because you do, and because you don't is all the reason you can give for believing or disbelieving except that you will say that Mahomet was an impostor. And how do you know Moses was not an impostor?

Thomas Paine

Believe, Giving, Reason

Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.162

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