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“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.”

“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.”

“The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.”

“The pleasure of laughing is more than doubled by the ability of making others laugh.”

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“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.”

“Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs; some wear one to conceal their age.”

“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”

Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).”

“If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.”

“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).”

“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

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

“Most nobodies are somebodies and most somebodies are nobodies somewhere.”

“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”

“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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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”

“Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.”

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

“The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.”

“Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.”

“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.”

“We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.”

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.”

“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.”

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.”

“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.”

“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.”

“We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.”

“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.”

“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”

“We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.”

“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.”

“The second best time to die is while sleeping. The best is while laughing.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound AphorismsRelated source material

The Use and Misuse of ChildrenRelated source material

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-upsRelated source material

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