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“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.”

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Agatha Christie, a renowned British detective novel writer, is known as the Queen of Detective Fiction. She was born on September 15, 1890, and passed away on January 12, 1976. Christie's works are characterized by intricate plots, unique reasoning, and vivid characters, and have had a profound impact on detective fiction worldwide. more

“A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.”

Want Character Order Social Simple Common Principles Risk Produce Majority Property Patterns Profit Mutual Outsiders Dominant Acquisition Simple Living Outcast Antagonism

Book:To Have Or To Be?

Source: To Have Or To Be?

“Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.”

Needs Simple Discovering Simple Living

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.”

Source: To Have Or To Be?

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