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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
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so…
And moreover my mother taught me as a boy
(repeatingly) 'Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
Inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
John Berryman
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
F. H. Bradley
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Georges Bernanos
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' or 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them (or their agents, who often adopt similar titles for themselves).
Desmond Morris
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
Gail Parent
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
Milton Sapirstein
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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
Harriet Jacobs
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May Alcott
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
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I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.
Lizzie Borden
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
Fred Rogers
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
John Sergeant Wise
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Nancy Friday
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom
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Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien
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The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano Bruno
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. It's amazing to me how much we do, but how little time we spend reflecting on what we just did.
Margaret Wheatley
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