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“Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.”

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Book:Honolulu

Source: Honolulu

“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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”

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

Source: 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.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”

“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”

“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.”

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.”

“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.”

“A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.”

Source: Wealth of Words