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• Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Alcohol, Righteous

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• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  W. D. Richter

  Flower, Space, Ships

  "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". m.imdb.com. 1978.

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• There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

  Karen Horney

  Reason Why, Lasts, Should

  Karen Horney “The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures”, Yale University Press

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• I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

  Patrick Ewing

  Basketball, Play, Gold

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• I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Gratitude, Positivity, Awards

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• There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Mother, Gambling

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• Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result.

  Richard Hamming

  Change, Science, Important

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Einstein uses his concept of God more often than a Catholic priest. Once I asked him:
  'Tomorrow is Sunday. Do you want me to come to you, so we can work?'
  'Why not?'
  'Because I thought perhaps you would like to rest on Sunday.'
  Einstein settled the question by saying with a loud laugh: 'God does not rest on Sunday either.'

  Leopold Infeld

  God, Sunday, Laughing

  Leopold Infeld (1941). “Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist”

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• We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of the elements of matter. With radium and with uranium we do not see anything but the decay. And yet, somewhere, somehow, it is almost certain that these elements must be continuously forming. They are probably being put together now in the laboratory of the stars. ... Can we ever learn to control the process. Why not? Only research can tell.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Stars, Science, Growth

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• Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Pain, Life Is

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• I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.

  Robert S. Mulliken

  Suicide, Science, Interesting

  Robert S. Mulliken (2012). “Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory”, p.24, Springer Science & Business Media

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• If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

  Arnold Rothstein

  Men, Dumb, Mobster

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• I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?

  Will Smith

  Attitude, Believe, Mind

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• If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!

  Claire Williams

  Butterfly, Routes, Scenic

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• If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Skin Color, Suffering

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• "I can't sleep" answered the nervous one.
  "Why not?" asked the friend.
  "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
  "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Sleep, Thinking, Investing

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• The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Eye, Cameras

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Roots, Ties

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

  Charles Frazier

  People, Bitter, Ruined

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• What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

  Milton Friedman

  Differences, People, Answers

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• I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am.

  Adam Levine

  California, People, Naked

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

  Brad Paisley

  Trying, Mindset, Changed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why not me?' and realized that I might be able to help other kids with diabetes.

  Nick Jonas

  Kids, Emotional, Helping Others

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• I would love to do a movie naked; it would be beautiful. No one dares make that kind of film today. They did it in the 1930s in an arty way, so why not now?

  Megan Fox

  Beautiful, Naked, Would Be

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• Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Morning, Humor

  "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.

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