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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 human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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Childhood Happiness Life Luck
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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Person Thinking Wrong
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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Disaster Feeling Horrible Lose Oneself War Win
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
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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Hard Knowledge Life Live Love Sad Save Suffering Yourself
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
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Life Moments Oneself Recognition
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
Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Advice Heart Heart Broken Myself
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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Change Life People Tragedy
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
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Age Bloom Enjoyment Greatness Life Open Yourself
With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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Problem Solve Thinking
Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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Children Failure Oneself Past See View World
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
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution

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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