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• Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

  Norton Juster

  Phantom Tollbooth, Reason, Used

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.42, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

  Jack Kornfield

  Way, Dies, Our Lives

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.41, Random House

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• If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Women, History, Abuse

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.189, Gospel Light Publications

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• Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

  Carl Sagan

  Religion, Steps, Ifs

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• Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

  Fred Emery

  Change, Adaptive, Adapting

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• It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?

  George Wells Beadle

  Believe, Science, Self

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• Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

  George Bernard Shaw

  Positive Thinking, People, Looks

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• If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

  Thornton Wilder

  Adventure, Life Is, Ends

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• In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Religion, Wish

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• There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?

  Roger Babson

  Thinking, Earth, Improvement

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• I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

  Mordecai Richler

  Games, Feminist, Pot

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• My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."

  Edward Kennedy

  Dream, Brother, War

  Ted Kennedy's eulogy for Robert Kennedy, St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, www.nydailynews.com. August 26, 2009.

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• So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Healthy

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “When We Were Orphans”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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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 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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• Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Crowds, March

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• In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

  Chris Colfer

  Believe, Mean, Winner

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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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• A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Viruses, Agents

  "The dead and the quick" by Simon Pegg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

  David Platt

  Ideas, Giving, Excess

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.123, Multnomah

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• Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

  Marguerite Henry

  Dream, Book, Character

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• He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.

  Mary Balogh

  Mean, Devil, Derivatives

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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