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• There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are responsive to the shareholders, but I why not to the so - called stakeholders, the work force and the community? Nothing in economic theory opposes that. Those are social and political decisions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Decision, Political

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

  Ian Bogost

  Trying, Attention, Pay

  Source: app.longform.org

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• We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?

  Brendon Burchard

  Running, Real, Inspire

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• If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."

  Anthony Standen

  Attitude, Lying, Science

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• I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

  Matthea Harvey

  Believe, Writing, Narrative

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me.

  Mandisa

  Passion, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.playitforwardmag.com

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• I'm not a wealthy person and I don't think that I would be able to prioritize that much money to go for a ride to a place that I have already lived. But if the price comes down or I win a lottery or something, why not?

  Chris Hadfield

  Thinking, Winning, Able

  "Floating Round My Tin Can". Interview with Jacob Aron, www.slate.com. November 16, 2013.

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• We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Change, Children, Father

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Home”, p.54, eKitap Projesi

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• Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

  Fanny Fern

  Selfish, People, May

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

  Isadora Duncan

  Brother, Cutting, Animal

  "My Life". Book by Isadora Duncan (Chapter 28), 1927.

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• The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?

  Marge Piercy

  Sex, Moon, Dresses

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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• Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Children, Yesterday

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• To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Generosity, Giving, Add

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• Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Summer, Cat, Winter

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.413, Wordsworth Editions

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• We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

  Winston Churchill

  Made, Ready, Not Ready

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.618, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm friends with everybody, I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me reasons not to you know what I'm saying? So, if everybody just trusted everybody and if everybody just loved everybody then we'd live in a perfect world... you know what I'm saying? I mean, why not?

  Christofer Drew

  Mean, Perfect, Giving

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• People feel completely anonymous online. They can say whatever they want, do whatever they want, why not go the next step and kill people through the Internet?

  Shane Dawson

  People, Next Steps, Want

  Interview with Tony Farinella, 411mania.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

  Jay-Z

  Writing, Men, Compare

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• There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Writing, Walking Away, Years

  Source: www.buffaloalmanack.com

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• A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• People who get implants, it's so depressing, you know... People - I don't know. The route of that, you know, maybe they want more love or attention, or what it is, but they always go for the most obvious place, you know? Here... Well if you really want more attention, why not get them in your eyes? And then move your eyes down to where your nipples used to be, put your breasts up on your head, everybody will pay attention!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Depressing, Moving

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.

  Desmond Tutu

  Longing, Infinite, Paradox

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Running, President

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• In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a hierarchy, and there doesn't necessarily have to be a hierarchy. When you're in a palace like Blenheim, you're supposed to be in awe - why not be in awe of something different than the stuff they're showing you? It's about finding your own existential place.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Reality, Alternate Realities, Hierarchy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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