Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

• “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

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• “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”

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• “Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”

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• “Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.”

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• “Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

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• “A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”

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• “Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”

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• “Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.”

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• “Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.”

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• “People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

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• “Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.”

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• “In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”

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• “There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”

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• “You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”

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• “A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”

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• “It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.”

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• “12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.”

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• “Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”

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• “We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”

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• “Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

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• “Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.”

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• “To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.”

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• “Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.”

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• “If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.”

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• “We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

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