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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Yann Martel

In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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Different Minority Notion Project
One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.
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Happy Mannered Mind Possessed Spy
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Inspirational Life Principles
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Dream Hands Survival
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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Tiny Vastness Views
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

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