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1 " Reality is what people who lack vision see. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana , The Confessions of a Misfit
2 " The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding. "
3 " Dating a wo/man with a kid is the new adoption. "
4 " A blank cheque kills creativity. "
5 " Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking. "
6 " If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated. "
7 " Life demands more thinking than remembering. "
8 " A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people. "
9 " Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem. "
10 " Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either. "
11 " The fear of failure is a liability. "
12 " Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism. "
13 " A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up. "
14 " A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. "
15 " Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence. "
16 " School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be. "
17 " Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried. "
18 " A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does. "
19 " Self-employment killed the weekend. "
20 " We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work. "