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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

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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Busy Immortal Live Need People
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
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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Disaster Lose Oneself War Win
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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Greatness Life Mistake See Time Wrong
I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn’t it?
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Essence Learning Life Myself Try
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
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Account Fact Let Go Theory
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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God Sin Yourself
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
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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Change Life People Tragedy
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Appearance Impossible Possible
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Alive Despair Live Misery Myself Quite Sorrow Wild
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Eat Engagement Service Stomach
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Different Present Time
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner

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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