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Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

Empress Dowager Cixi

Fighting, Yield, Arms

"The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China". Book by Keith Laidler, p. 221, January 21, 2005.

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It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.

Joel Salatin

Country, Silly, Thinking

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Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

Simon Blackburn

Religious, Jesus, Hate

Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.133, Oxford University Press

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My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Fun, Winning, Thinking

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You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?

Jack LaLanne

Athlete, Exercise, Garbage Cans

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Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

Jack LaLanne

Who We Are, Matter, Life Is

Jack Lalanne (2008). “Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness and Finance: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

Chuck Palahniuk

Book, Writing, Dark

Source: www.pbs.org

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It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?

John McCain

Cost, Fundamentals, Economics

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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

Don DeLillo

Culture, Use, Popular Culture

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.158, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Warwick

Records, Should, My Own

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Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

Andrew Dost

Berries, Mainstream, Should

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On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

Eckhart Tolle

Life Changing, Friendly, Different

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.39, New World Library

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What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.

Alexandra Adornetto

Thinking, Sound, Noses

Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven: Number 3 in series”, p.29, Hachette UK

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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Stephen King

Too Late, Influence, Knows

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.585, Simon and Schuster

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Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand. Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

Nicholas Sparks

Want, Kind, Complicated

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I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

Ozzy Osbourne

War, Gun, People

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I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

RuPaul

Shopping, Clothes, Three

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Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -

Hayley Williams

Air, Fists, Pumps

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Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?

Matthew Quick

Children, Teenager, Struggle

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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Louise Erdrich

Thinking, Tears, Doorways

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Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?" "Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine.

Jeaniene Frost

Heart, Broken, Sound

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My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?' 'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly. 'But why not?' I look at him in surprise. 'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".

Alexandra Potter

Memories, Rain, Heart

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Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!

Richelle Mead

Smell, Car, Silence

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Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

James Patterson

Self Esteem, Food, Popcorn

James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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When you say '90210,' everyone knows what you're talking about. So why not make use of that? And they certainly have. I think the show looks beautiful, and all the actors are doing a great job. It's a tangled web they've created thus far. It's great.

Jason Priestley

Beautiful, Jobs, Thinking

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