"Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'"
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"Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it!"
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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."
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"If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!"
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"Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really."
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"In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all."
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"Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -"
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"You took the best, so why not take the rest?"
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"Why not stakeholder action? There's no economic principal that says that management should be responsive to shareholders, in fact you can read in texts of business economics that they could just as well have a system in which the management is responsible to stakeholders."
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"If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'"
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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?"
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"As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it."
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"The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?"
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"Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots."
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"Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?"
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"'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?"
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"You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?"
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"Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier"
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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?"
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"I think it's good to be passionate, and I think it's even good to be obsessed about a show. Why not? I think it's great!"
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