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Made Me Think Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Adam Silvera
“Did finding Each other kill us?”
Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

Matthew Bracey
“I feel a bit like the Willy Wonka of Neon, if you could eat neon, chocolate would be the next best thing”
Matthew Bracey

William  James
“If I should now utter piercing shrieks and act like a maniac on this platform, it would make many of you revise your ideas as to the probable worth of my philosophy.”
William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

John Green
“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers--when you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like In summation, and To conclude. I didn't do that--instead I talked about why it was an important question. People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”
John Green, Looking for Alaska

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