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

“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.”

“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?”

“A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.”

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

“All worries are less with wine.”

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

“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.”

“Simplicity saves strength.”

“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”

“Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.”

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

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

“Great losses are great lessons.”

“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.”

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.”

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.”

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

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

“Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”

“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

“Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.”