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• If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.

  Diane Coyle

  Book, Thinking, Laughing

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• If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?

  Garrett Morgan

  Success, African American, Trying

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• I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

  Bradford Cox

  Being Yourself, Struggle, Tired

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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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• The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.

  Laird Hamilton

  Morning, Rip, Ideas

  Laird Hamilton (2010). “Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul (And, of Course, Surfing)”, p.11, Rodale

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• Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

  Joshua Ferris

  Life, Dog, Sunset

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• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  Eban Goodstein

  Country, Our Generation, Years

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• Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

  Van Jones

  Oil, America, Climate

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Individual, Institutions

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

  Kristin Cashore

  Book, Writing, Space

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Flower

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

  Sean Hannity

  Law, People, Starting Over

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• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

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• Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

  Abraham Maslow

  Technology, Joy, Wells

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• Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it. Why not practice it with the first three people you encounter after reading this?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jobs, Reading, Practice

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 20, 2016

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• Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.

  Colman McCarthy

  Children, School, Giving

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• The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?

  Wim Wenders

  Fashion, Example, Prejudice

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• Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?

  Jack Gilbert

  Jobs, Moving, Pride

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• Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

  Frederick Busch

  Littles, Pounds, Thanks

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, People

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspire, Impossible, Imagine

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.397, Penguin

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• I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Unique, People, Answers

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• We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

  Frank J. Tipler

  Beautiful, Ugly, Hypothesis

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• Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to always be moving toward something. So why not be moving toward something that is pleasing? You can't cease to vibrate, and Law of Attraction will not stop responding to the vibration that you are offering. So, expansion is inevitable. You provide it, whether you know you do, or not. The only question is, what is the standard of joy that you are demanding for yourself? From your Nonphysical perspective, it's a high, high standard.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving, Law Of Attraction, Offering

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• The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, School

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