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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

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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Knowledge Ourselves Possession Weapon
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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Character Invention Life Tired Yourself
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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Children Dare Herself Law Love Mom Path Stand World
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
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Love Pay Price Yourself
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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Appearance Funny Goodness Hard Life Man Yourself
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Courage Face Resolution See
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
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
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Afraid Question Yourself
You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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Age Fight Live Material Willing Yourself
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
Time is the best killer.
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Best Kill One Liner Time
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Bitter Forever Journey Path
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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Complete Fear Knowledge One Liner
It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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Mystery Remove Romance
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
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
It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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Love People Suffering
It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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Important Inspirational Man Mistake Wasted Time Work
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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Acceptance Bitter Design Live Truth
If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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Animal Bite Complain Head Place Yourself
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
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
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution

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