{"quotes":[{"text":"You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["general-semantics","language"],"id":5822,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["dating","general-semantics","language","marriage","meaning","monogamy","polygamist","polygamy","relationships","semantics"],"id":29609,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["character","expectations","general-semantics","identity","personality","statistics","victim"],"id":160113,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["bad-luck","black","color","colour","feminism","general-semantics","language","meaning","pink","semantics","symbolism"],"id":168616,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["definition","divided-and-conquered","employee","employer","employment","general-semantics","language","meaning","perspective"],"id":169089,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravate","aggravates","aggravation","brain","brood-about","brood-on","chew-over","cogitate","complement","complements","compliment","compliments","consider","contemplate","deliberate-over","dwell-on","fast","fool","foolish","fools","general-semantics","intellect","intelligent","meditate-on","mind","mull-over","muse-on","ponder","reflect-on","ruminate-on","semantics","silence","silent","speak","speaker","speakers","talk","talker","talkers","think","think-about","thinker","thinkers","tongue","tongues","turn-over-in-one-s-mind","wisdom","wise"],"id":187616,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acknowledgment","general-semantics","meaning","money","poor","rich","semantics","social-constructs","value"],"id":212350,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["ambition","branding","consumerism","general-semantics","greed","materialism","semantics"],"id":298230,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["ambiguity","ambiguous","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","comprehend","comprehension","ear","ears","eye","eyeglasses","eyes","funny","gaze","gazing","general-semantics","glasses","hear","hearing","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","language","look","looking","misunderstand","misunderstanding","satire","see","seeing","semantics","sight","spectacles","understand","understanding"],"id":324639,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["conclusion","delay","general-semantics","humility","indication","intellect","intellectual","maturity","semantics","sign","speed"],"id":351747,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}