"Getting through life without a lot of mo"

“Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, believe, believes, deep, dictum, dictums, dollar, dollars, epigram, epigrams, food, funny, gnome, gnomes, hobo, hobos, homeless, homelessness, human, human-being, human-beings, humor, humorous, humour, hunger, hungry, importance, important, insightful, less-important, life, live, lives, made-me-think, make-you-think, mankind, maxim, maxims, money, more-important, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, starvation, starve, sustenance, thought-provoking, thoughtful,

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“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana,

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“The world has a very serious problem, my friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we’re pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though…”

- Ramez Naam,

Tag: burn, burning, child, children, corals, death, die, economics, economy, environment, environmental, environmental-conservation, environmental-degradation, environmental-protection, environmentalism, forest, forests, globalism, globalization, humanity, mind, mind-power, nationalism, politics, poor, population, population-control, population-explosion, population-growth, poverty, problem, problems, rich, scarcity, society, starvation, struggle, tipping-point, western-civilization,

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“I died last night. Seventy years too young.”

- Colin Thompson

Tag: dust, early-death, famine, global, ignorance, niger, poverty, starvation, truth,

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“Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving.”

- Nayyirah Waheed

Tag: desire, love, lust, starvation,

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