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“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”

“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.”

“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some people will hate you for not loving them.”

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

“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

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

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

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“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.”

“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.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“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.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“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.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“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.”

“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.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

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

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

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

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

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

“Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Pearls of wisdom are better than necklaces of diamonds.”

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Author:Matshona Dhliwayo

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

“Ich fragte nicht weiter. Die Menschen reagieren empfindlich, wenn man ihren Glauben mit der Ökonomie verknüpft. Es gibt aber nichts, was die Welt bewegt, als allein das Gold. Selbst die Liebe entzündet sich am Gold. Und der Glaube erst recht. Ihr senkt die Knie vor eurer Göttin, wenn sie vors Portal tritt, juwelenüberrieselt der reine Leib. Würdet ihr sie auch lieben, wenn sie im Keller die Asche versorgte, Krätzeflecken auf der Haut? Nur eine Macht habe ich gefunden in der Welt, die kümmert sich nicht ums Gold: die Geilheit. Aber die ist schnell verraucht, und ohne Folgen. Vornehme Frauen habe ich gesehen, die Spreize machend unter einem Stallknecht, der stank nach Mist. Ergraute Männer habe ich gesehen, schwer von Würde, die rannten eine Hure zu ficken, die die ganze Stadt schon hatte. Ich sprach davon zu meinem alten Lehrer, und er sah mich an und sagte: Man soll nicht davon reden. Ich war schon ein junger Mann damals, war auf Reisen gewesen, und mein alter Lehrer erhielt sein Gnadenbrot auf meines Vaters Gut, wie es den Pferden und den Sklaven zusteht. Ich war enttäuscht über seine Antwort und verachtete ihn. Heute weiß ich, dass ich ein Kind war und dumm und hochfahrend. Er hatte recht. In seinen Worten lag die einzige Weisheit, zu der einer kommen kann. Man soll nicht darüber reden.”

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Book:An der Mauer

Source: An der Mauer

“A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea.”

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Author:Matshona Dhliwayo

“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

“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.”

“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.”

“These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.”

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Author:Michael Polanyi

“I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.”

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Author:Maggie Q

“You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do.”

Knows Stupid Maxims

Author:Christy Carlson Romano

“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.”

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Author:William Rounseville Alger

“I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper - The Revolution - four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government... And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."”

“When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.”

Nations Inspiring Maxims Good Sense

Author:James Mackintosh

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