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• I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke.

  Howard Stern

  Marijuana, Differences, Doctors

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• Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders.

  Chris Elam

  Writing, Bystanders, Volunteer

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• If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

  William J. Brennan

  Urban, Planning, Constitution

  "Viewpoint: A Blow to Property Rights" by Bernard H. Siegan, reason.com. September 1984.

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• The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar on hair gel so you can get the perfect cowlick?

  Zach Braff

  Children, Hair, Perfect

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• I heard about the Dalai Lama, you know and I thought to myself, why not me?

  Zach Braff

  Heard, Lama, Dalai

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• Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual heritage. If you left your children money they didn't need, and if they were thinking correctly, wouldn't they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself, since He entrusted it to you?

  Randy Alcorn

  Spiritual, Children, Hard Work

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.77, Multnomah

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• I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

  Mira Sorvino

  New York, Giving, Said

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• Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?

  Tony Robbins

  Stress, Years, Laughing

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• I mean there's a college kid left in everyone. I bet you, too, if you could go back you would for a night or two, so why not? My brother's still in college, my little brother, so it's always good to go back and get a little glimpse of it and to hang out with him for a weekend or two.

  Rob Gronkowski

  Brother, Mean, Kids

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• This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?

  Dale Carnegie

  Adventure, Trying, Earth

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• Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Thinking, Great Day

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• I know you have the capability to understand right from wrong because you hate people who harm children. Well, why not despise people who harm animals? It's hypocritical! Why protect one and violate the other when neither one wants or deserves the abuse? They just wish it would end. Stop praising the innocence in children then ignoring or making fun of the innocence in animals.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Children, Fun, Hate

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• We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, World, Materials

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• Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

  Iris Johansen

  Eye, Going Away, Done

  Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam

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• If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

  Richard Dawkins

  Forgiving, Generations, Killers

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

  Janis Joplin

  Feels, All Things

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• It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?'

  David Whyte

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "The Questions that Have No Right to Go Away" By David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

  Horace Greeley

  Religion, Church, Trying

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• Cows eat grass and silage. This is melting the ice caps and killing us all. So they need a new foodstuff: something that is rich in iron, calcium and natural goodness. Plainly they cannot eat meat so here is an idea to chew on. Why not feed them vegetarians?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ice, Ideas, Iron

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• Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

  Erica Jong

  Parenting, Individual

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• God already knows the naked truth about us, of course.
  Why not acknowledge it?

  Philip Yancey

  Naked, Acknowledge, Courses

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• I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

  Bryan Cranston

  Thinking

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• My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

  Janis Joplin

  Fun, Ends, Enjoy

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• Somewhere there's a treasure that has no value to anyone but you, and a secret that's meaningless to everyone except you, and a frontier that harbors a revelation only you would know how to exploit. Why not go in search of those things?

  Rob Brezsny

  Secret, Treasure, Revelations

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• Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago.

  Frans de Waal

  Believe, Self, Years

  "Morals Without God?". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 17, 2010.

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