Mokokoma Mokhonoana said this quote

“ We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have. ”

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

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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.

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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

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Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

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