WHY NOT?

The quote "Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" was originally written by George Bernard Shaw in his 1921 play Back to Methuselah.

It became widely popularized by Robert F. Kennedy, who used it as the theme for his 1968 presidential campaign. While often attributed solely to Kennedy, he correctly credited Shaw when he first delivered the speech to the Irish Parliament in 1963.

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