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«A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.»
«Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.»
«If you never change your mind, why have one?»
«I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.»
«Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives»
Author: Sue Murphy | About: Funny | Keywords: Did, dogs, forget, lives, room, rooming, spend, walk, walked, walk of life, why
«I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?»
Author: Bill Watterson (Author) | Keywords: fair, fairs, favor, favoring, unfair, why
«He who has a why can endure any how»
«He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.»
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
«I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean»

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