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the best-laid plans of your life were usually the ones you never made
means happening naturally and without planning, prompted by an inner impulse rather than outside force or forethought
from From Late Latin spontaneus, 'willing, of one's own accord,' built on the Latin phrase sua sponte, 'of one's own free will.' That sponte traces back to spons, a word for free will or inclination that survives almost only in this fossilized phrase — so the whole idea of spontaneity is essentially carried by a single nearly-extinct Latin noun for acting because you simply wanted to.
- brain timing
- decisions form before you consciously choose them
- combustion
- oily rags can ignite themselves with no spark
- recovery rate
- some cancers vanish without any treatment at all
- latin root
- means of one's own free will
spontaneous human combustion — inexplicable deaths where bodies burned from within, including thomas sumpter in 1764 and countess cornelia di bandi in 1731
spontaneous generation theory — belief that life arose from non-living matter, disproven by pasteur's experiments in 1864
spontaneous desert flowers — wildflowers blooming after rare rains in death valley, california, creating mass displays every 5-10 years