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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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children
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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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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children
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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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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children
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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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“Why don't you answer me straight out?" Hayt demanded. "You know we have other ways of questioning you. We'll get our answers. . . one way or another." "But I have answered you! Have I not said the myth is real? Am I the wind that carries death in its belly? No! I am words! Such words as the lighting which strikes from the sand in a dark sky. I have said: 'Blow out the lamp! Day is here!' And you keep saying: 'Give me a lamp so I can find the day.”

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Book:Dune Messiah
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“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible. Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity. Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.”

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Book:The age of reason
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“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist, researcher and conservative of the Word of God with sensible and measured pursuit of infinite growth, a marriage of the spiritual knowledge (Gnosis), and unutterable love for the faith in constant pursuits and mission for truths with devoutness to prowess faith and love from faith’s vocation and noetic that’s flamed within that gives us the calling (vocation) of theologian. For theology pursues and endless journey of the Lord’s knowledge while maintaining the faith and is the strength hold of creed that manifest purpose, ontology and guardianship of the soul and wisdom, in a relation, a sound mind for divinity. . .”

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Book:Awakening Kings and Princes Volume I
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