{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-needs","busy","busyness","civilization","civilized","companies","company","cook","cooking","deep","dictum","dictums","eat","eat-out","eating","employee","employees","epigram","epigrams","exploit","exploitation","exploited","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","groceries","grocery","humor","humorous","humour","hunger","hungry","innate","insightful","laziness","lazy","made-me-think","make-a-living","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","owner","owners","persuade","philosopher","produce","production","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","restaurant","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","self-presavation","south-africa","south-african","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","takeaway","takeaways","takeout","thought-provoking","thoughtful","uncivilized"],"id":142124,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Three things are neededFor humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["basic-needs","demands","economics","human","human-being","humane","humanity","justice","life","materialism","needs","peace","philosophy","reality","society","suzy-kassem","things","three","truth"],"id":192263,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"THREE BASIC TRUTHSThree things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.Three things are needed For humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["basic-needs","beautiful-poem","bloundless","death","dying","earth","earth-poems","harmony","humanity","justice","knowledge","life-poem","life-poetry","limitless","love","mankind","pain","peace","poem","poet","poetry","poetry","survival","survive","suzy-kassem","three","three-things","threshold","truth","truths","unconditional","wisdom","wise"],"id":407427,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}