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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms, audacity, axiom, axioms, balls, be-yourself, boldness, brave, bravery, cojones, conform, conforming, conformity, courage, courageous, courageousness, daring, dead, death, deep, dictum, dictums, die, epigram, epigrams, facade, facades, fear, fearful, fearlessness, fit-in, fitting-in, fruit, fruits, gallantry, gnome, gnomes, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, herself, himself, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humour, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, intrepidity, kill, killed, lemon, lemons, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, moxie, murder, murdered, nerve, nonconformity, oneself, orange, people, peoples, person, persons, plant, plants, pluck, pluckiness, pretend, pretender, pretenders, pretending, produce, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self, spunk, standing-out, standout, themselves, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tree, trees, true-grit, valour, words-to-live-by, yourself

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“Sometimes I feel like Americans want to protect the Constitution more than they want to protect the Americans the Constitution is supposed to protect.”
― Trevor Noah

tags: absurdity, constitution, politics, trevor-noah

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“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: beliefs, brainwashed, brainwashing, compatibility, conclusions, conform, conformist, conformity, critical-thinking, herd-mentality, independent-thinking, independent-thought, indoctrination, nonconformity, puppet, sheep, sheep-mentality

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“If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?”
― Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues

tags: evil, god, good, goodness, religion, rush-limbaugh

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“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana