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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
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Writer
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
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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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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.
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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.
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Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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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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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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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
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You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
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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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