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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: critical-thinker, critical-thinking, democracy, education, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-the-press, freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, independent-thinking, independent-thought, indocrination, liberation, mental-slavery, slavery
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    “The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: fornication, humor, marriage, marriage-humor, religion, sex
    16 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: employment, heaven, heaven-and-hell, hell, humor, humour, interview, job, religion, the-purpose-of-life, unemployment
    35 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Fear usually benefits the feared; seldom the fearful.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: fear, fearless, inspirational
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: books, employee, employment, job, reading, salary, studying, work
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: aging, breasts, females, looks, old-age, passage-of-time, self-conscious, self-consciousness, self-esteem, women, worry
    6 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: arrogance, arrogant, entertainment, humble, intellect, knowledge, life, looks, self-esteem
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: civilization, degree, diploma, employment, employment-contract, food, food-gatherer, money, paper, pieces, salary, survival
    12 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: blind, language, opposites, oversleeping, pawn, pawn-shop, porn, porn-shop, semantics, unintelligent
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: free-will, freedom, god, notion, religion, surgeon
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: birth, death, duration, life, life-and-death
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Undesirable things that man can alter (e.g., his weight), he alters. Those that he cannot (e.g., his height), he calls the will of God.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: god, religion, self-consciousness, the-will-of-god
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  • #13
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: certainty, historians, insurance, insurance-companies, possibility, tomorrow, yesterday
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  • #14
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Wearing: shorts + a jersey = a visual oxymoron.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: clothes, cold, hot, jersey, oxymoron, shorts, visual
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: civilization, gossip, news, newspapers, primitive
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: death, life, life-and-death, meaning-of-life, purpose
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: dating, entertainment, materialism, men, women
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  • #18
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: ad-hominem, argument, debate, emotions, intellect, intellectual, logic, reason, reasoning
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  • #19
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “To a misogynist: To err is woman.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: err, hate, man, men, misogynist, misogyny, to-err-is-human, woman, women
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  • #20
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Somebody is born.
    Somebody goes to school.
    Somebody learns to conform.
    Somebody types a CV.
    Somebody gets a job.
    Somebody follows orders.
    Somebody gets a golden watch.
    And then, eventually,
    Somebody dies.
    And, a Nobody is buried.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: average, conform, conformity, cv, education, employee, employment, exploitation, golden-watch, independent-thinking, job, life, mediocre, purpose, retirement, school, work
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: dating, exaggeration, hyperbole, love, love-songs, marriage, music, overemphasis, overkill, overstatement, relationships, songs
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: degree, diploma, dream, education, failure, give-up, plan-b, qualifications, success
    29 likes

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  • #23
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: club, humor, humour, important, meaning, party, people, relativity, v-i-p, value, vip, vip-area
    10 likes

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  • #24
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Those who lack the guts to create critic.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: art, courage, creator, critics, guts
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: hard-work, intellect, nature-vs-nurture, talent, virgin, virginity, work
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  • #26
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “People who wear G-strings suffer from indecision.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: decision, g-string, humor, humour, indecision, underwear
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: altruism, charity, dating, humanitarian, humanitarianism, love, lover, marriage, philanthropy, relationships, selfishness, selflessness, world
    17 likes

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  • #28
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Multitudes speak of their first love; seldom about their last hate.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: first-hate, first-love, hate, love
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: desire, materialism, need, possessions, preoccupation, want
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  • #30
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: breakup, dating, divorce, dream, dreamer, loss, love, lover, relationship
    13 likes



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