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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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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Middlemarch

Quote from George Eliot, Middlemarch

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana The Use and Misuse of Children

Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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Patrick Ness

Quote from Patrick Ness

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Quote from Aijaz Ahmad

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

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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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