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Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.

Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.