"Batswana must develop those habits of writing and sustain them"

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“It’s a beautiful thing to find your book at a community book store that has raised you”

“I want to write. That pretty much sums up my aspirations for my career”

“Giving people opportunities to write and exposing people to technical experts in the space can be career altering”

“It’s the prevalence of premonitions that got me started and I thought it would be cool if I could personify death”

“Africans are naturally in tune with the ancestral realm. We “feel” things. “know” things”

“Writing for me is when I feel the most connected to myself and everything around me. I’d do it even if no-one ever read anything I wrote”

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— Winston Churchill

Politics1940–2010

#education

"The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay..."

— Jacob Bronowski

Literature1908–1974

#life

"What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forced to look at a concept in a certain way. What I d…"

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy1845–1925

#mind

"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have se…"

— John Adams

Politics1947

#knowledge