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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Ask
Robert F. Kennedy

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Adversity
Rose F. Kennedy

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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Omar Khayyam

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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
War
Rudyard Kipling

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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Government
Gerhard Kocher

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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Army and Navy
Karl Kraus

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Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
Stupidity
Karl Kraus

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
Lovers
D. H. Lawrence

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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Robert E. Lee

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
Pain
C. S. Lewis

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The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Appearance
Abraham Lincoln

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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Parents and Parenting
John Locke

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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Reason
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
Women
Clare Boothe Luce

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Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Work, Hard
Charlie McCarthy

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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Listening
Mignon McLaughlin

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.
Friends and Friendship
Claude Mermet

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.
Truth
Owen C. Middleton

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I learned why they're called wonder drugs -- you wonder what they'll do to you.
Drugs
Harlan Miller

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
Reality
George Moore

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
Life and Living
Vladimir Nabokov

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He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
Reason
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
Sports
Friedrich Nietzsche

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I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.
Computers
Kenneth Olsen

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun