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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."

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"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."

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Donna Grant

"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

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Donna Grant

"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

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Donna Grant

"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

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Donna Grant

"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

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Donna Grant

"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."

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Donna Grant

"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

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Donna Grant

"There is a pride in speaking this language."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"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."

Society

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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."

Mortality

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

Time

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

Religion

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

Work

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

Work

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

Relationship

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

Religion

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

Philosophy

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

Writing

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