"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."

Satire, Missionaries, Humor, Eating, History

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"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."

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"Genuinity is mother of stupidity."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

John Updike, American Novelist

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"Does your guilty past catch up so fast with your age? You've been robbing hex nuts, cap nuts, lock nuts and wing nuts. No wonder you have turned into a greedy nut."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

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"Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must."

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Neal Shusterman, American Author

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"He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."

Compassion

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

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"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."

Youth

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

Love

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

Faith

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Identity

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."

Wisdom

"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."

Parenting

"I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true."

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"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"

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