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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them."

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"It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them."

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"He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little."

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"That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: "Nobody else is going to do this."

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"She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches beeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much."

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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."

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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

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"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."

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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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