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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
Nadia Comaneci
Fly
Gymnastics
Like
Because
Maybe
Why
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
Nicholas Kristof
Education
Girl
Reading
Society
Books
Extremism
Threat
More
Drones
Firing
Powerful
Missiles
Force
Terrified
Because
Reading Books
Greatest
Greatest Threat
Transform
Fanatics
Why
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
Noam Chomsky
Government
You
Enemy
Own
State
Secret
Citizens
Laws
Main
Supposed
Know
Protect
Doing
Governments
Regard
Them
Themselves
Why
It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.
Novak Djokovic
Relationship
You
Judge
Will
Parents
Feeling
Say
Kind
Had
Support
Because
Always
Close
Close Relationship
Anything
Interesting
Grandfather
Grandparents
Your
Connection
They Say
Why
I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
Paddy Considine
People
Out
Stay
Takes
Abuse
Know
Also
Domestic
Heartbreaking
Get
Victims
Why
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Paul McCartney
Buy
Says
Sign
Window
Yard
Junk
Shop
Shop Window
Why
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Philip Zimbardo
Good
People
Sometimes
Smart
Alien
Evil
Good People
Seem
Primarily
Smart People
Unusual
How
Been
Dumb
Irrational
Ordinary
Interested
Ordinary People
Act
Natures
Why
Things
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
Prince
Me
Fools
Pay
Tell
Attention
Any
Them
Should
Who
Suck
Why
Albums
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Ralph Nader
Politics
Democracy
Vote
People
Drop
Sense
Every
Spells
Our
Worse
Worst
Out
Drop-Out
Powerlessness
Least
Years
Wonder
Gets
After
Then
Elections
Cycle
Who
Deep
Gap
Why
Four
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca West
Art
Great
Intelligence
Logical
Great Art
Through
Pass
Camel
Mob
Should
Reason
Why
Needle
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
Rene Redzepi
Good
Obligation
Opportunity
Eat
About
New
Perhaps
Chefs
Inform
Public
Even
Why
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick
Love
Kiss
Sweet
Approve
Some
Sure
Lime
Glue
Cement
Why
We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.
Robert Mugabe
Food
Enough
Hungry
Want
Us
Choked
Why
When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.
Rudolf Steiner
Writing
Human Being
Painting
Rudimentary
Draw
Drawing
Allow
Develop
Develops
Done
Human
Being
Children
Interest
Being Done
Should
Whole
Why
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Rush Limbaugh
Life
Work
Death
Abortion
Nothing
President
President Obama
Extremist
Moral
Obama
Immoral
Life And Death
Morality
Compromise
Delivered
Wrong
Between
Message
Reduce
His
Pro-Life
Them
Should
Notre Dame
Why
Number
Dame
Speech
Position
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
Sarah Jessica Parker
Great
Women
Men
Sphinx
Unmarried
Like
Riddle
Many
Why
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
Shakuntala Devi
Mathematics
Approach
Dread
Wrong
Looked
Because
Subject
Children
Why
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life
Man
Animal
Humanity
Sex
Giving
Has-Been
Above
Superiority
Risking
Been
Accorded
Which
Forth
Why
Brings
Raised
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
Faith
Great
Yourself
People
Some People
Superior
Drive
Difficult
Further
Some
Vastly
Talent
Go
Than
Getting
Much
Requires
Avid
Profession
Why
Inner
Mediocre
Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.
Steve Jobs
You
Business
Way
Would
About
Invariably
Something
Throughout
Nobody
Knows
Around
Always
Answers
Years
Discovered
Very
Get
Done
Oh
Just
Ask
Why
Deeply
Things
Here
Thinks
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Sun Myung Moon
Truth
Truth Is
Distance
Crooked
Points
Between
Always
Line
Lines
Which
Straight
Shortest
Straight Line
Shortest Distance
Many
Why
Two
When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.
Suresh Raina
Alone
Good
You
Change
Respect
People
Will
Good Person
Important
Down
Rallying
Earn
Out
Stays
Because
Around
Always
Friends
Person
Being
Whether
Successful
Why
If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
Tim Conway
God
Religion
People
Those
Would
Over
Because
Audience
Effect
Offend
Person
Same
Being
Want
Why
Watched
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
Tom Stoppard
Myself
Hopeless
Looking
See
How
Trying
Working
Why
Things
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
Walter Mosley
Problem
World
Father
Black
Would
Solver
He
Spoiling
Ready-Made
Were
Been
Brainwashed
Then
Asking
View
Deep
Why
Thinker
Socrates
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
Warren Buffett
Good
You
Wonderful
Too Much
Too
Invest
Good Thing
Like
Said
West
Much
Really
Your
Companies
Why
Why Not
Assets
Thing
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