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  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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  Love, Birthday, Family

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• Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

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  Thinking, May, Imagine

  Agatha Christie (1943). “Triple Threat: Exploits of Three Famous Detectives: Hercule Poirot, Harley Quin and Tuppence”

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• Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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  Taken, Facts, Fit

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.135, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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  Thinking, People, Fool

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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• Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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  Incomplete Knowledge, Incomplete

  "Death Comes as the End". Book by Agatha Christie, 1945.

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• Very few of us are what we seem.

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  Literature, Seems

  Agatha Christie (1995). “Partners in crime”

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• Books are a habit-forming drug.

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  Book, Drug, Habit

  Agatha Christie (1952). “A Daughter's a Daughter”

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• Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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  Alive, Remains, Has Beens

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• 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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  Accompany Us, Self, World

  Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott (2014). “A Daughter’s a Daughter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• 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, Individuality, Everyday

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• To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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  Simple, Simple Solutions, Problem

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• There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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  Character, Men, Feet

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Taken at the flood”, Berkley Pub Group

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• It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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  Love, Cute, Confused

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

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• Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Mother And Daughter

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• With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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  Problem

  Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”

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• The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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  People, Tragedy, Life Is

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Taken at the flood”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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  Faces, Resolution, Unforeseen

  Agatha Christie (2000). “The Big Blue House Call”, Pocket Books

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• The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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  Winning, People, Giving

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Remembered death”, Free Press

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• There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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  Men, Umpires, Evil

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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  Justice, Needs, Too Much

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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• Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

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  Doe, Different, Guise

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Mysterious Mr Quin”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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  Important, Too Late, Literature

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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  Thinking, Mind, Let It Go

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Funerals are Fatal”

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• When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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  Letting Go, Facts, Theory

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