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I dont think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . .

I dont think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. – Agatha Christie

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. – Agatha Christie

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Theres too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. – Agatha Christie

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