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Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: Will it do good? When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, Why not?

Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?

Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, p.306, Penguin

So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy

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

Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

"Here We Aren't, So Quickly". www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.230, Greenleaf Book Group

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

To a man in the street, carrying a grandfather clock, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 12