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I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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Care Failure Goodness Happiness People
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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Acceptance Bitter Design Live Truth
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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Children Experience Growth Intuition Reading Word
With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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Problem Solve Thinking
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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Acceptance Companion Company Friendship Goodness Grave Learning Live Yourself
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Afraid Question Yourself
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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Expression Greatness People Proper Trouble Writing
I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.
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Experience Life Mindset Peace Yourself
Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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Crime Innocence Justice Mercy Need Result Victim
It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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Evil Freedom God Man Tendency Willing
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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Beginning Human Mindset Remember Result Thinking Value
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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Alive Destroy Happiness Place Yourself
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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Ourselves Quite Togetherness
Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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Human Life Nature See Train Wonderful

I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.

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I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.

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