Synonyms for why not
why not

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1. why notadverb

   Why is that not true?

   I don't want to go out today. Why not?

   Synonyms:
   why

2. why notadverb

   Synonyms:
   I dont see why not, all right, OK

3. why notadverb

   Synonyms:
   what if, how about

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1. why not

   Read the full text of the Why Not poem by Bobby McGraw on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Pablo Picasso:

   Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

2. Megyn Kelly:

   Barbara Walters has retired, oprah has moved to the OWN network and is doing a different thing now. So why not me ?

3. Ed Razek:

   Why not ? Because the show is a fantasy.

4. Jeremiah Jones:

   I saw my dad printing up promotional T-shirts and giving them away to get his own business going and I thought, ‘ Why not me ? ’ why not let me inspire my own peers and kids of all ages to be great ?

5. Marian Tupy:

   Some of the anti-capitalist impulse goes back to that hunter-gatherer mentality and not comprehending the complexity of the market economy, the complexity outpaced our ability to understand it. But even those who don’t understand markets should open their eyes and acknowledge its benefits : Worldwide, wherever economic freedom is allowed, millions of people have lifted themselves out of stoop labor and miserable poverty. Of course, not everyone can reap the benefits of markets. The sick, the mentally ill and other truly helpless people need a hand. But why assume government must provide that help ? Government does n’t do anything very well. Why not let private charity handle it ? I once assumed there was too much poverty for private charity to make much of a difference. But now I realize there is plenty of money, and private charity would do much more if government did n’t discourage it. When the welfare state took over poverty relief, it crowded out.