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I am studying mathematics because I wanted to study something as difficult as it is useless

— Siyanda Mohutsiwa

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We fear the pain of failure, and that’s why it’s easier to want things. We don’t want to examine our parenting techniques; thinking back to painful moments in our childhoods when we vowed never to become our parents

Because, it is far easier to want a nicer, more expensive outfit than it is to ask ourselves why we can never conceive that we are enough as we are

It is easier to want a better, higher paying job than to ask ourselves what happened to the idealism that had once dominated our youth and fuelled our desire to change the world

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

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