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“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”

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“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.”

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“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”

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“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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“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.”

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“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children
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“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.”

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“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.”

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“Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.”

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“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.”

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“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”

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“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.”

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“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.”

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“Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.”

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“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.”

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“Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.”

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“Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.”

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“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.”

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“Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.”

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“The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.”

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“An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Let’s make an example. Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence. Carl William Brown”

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Book:William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown
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“Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence. Carl William Brown”

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Book:Aforismi. Volume quarto: Aforismi, massime, pensierini, riflessioni, battute, idee, motti di spirito, invettive, sentenze e paradossi. (I libri del Daimon Club)
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