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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana The Use and Misuse of Children

Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana The Use and Misuse of Children

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It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana The Use and Misuse of Children

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To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

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Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

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Wendelin Van Draanen

Quote from Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

It’s easy to look back and see it, and it’s easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don’t look beneath the surface until it’s too late.

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

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Quote from Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.

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