"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."
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"To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'"
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"In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'"
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"People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms?"
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"When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try."
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"Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?"
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"When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is."
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"Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?"
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"Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?"
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"As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?"
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"Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'"
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"No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed."
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"I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it."
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"A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now."
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"Why not? After all, it belongs to him."
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"Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'."
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"If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation."
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"One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question."
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"Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?"
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"We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?"
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