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Running is more demanding than walking.

Yet, walking away is stronger than running away.

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Everything is essentially empty, so it’s fruitless to aim for the centre.

Instead aim for the frame; that’s where all the substance is.

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What makes life unfair? Being merciful to the merciless.

So that when the tide turns, the merciless take out the merciful.

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If the idea that wealth has little to nothing to do with capability or character - is hard to accept, then just wait to see how it is abused, wasted, spent or shown off.

Case closed.

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Sparse, stingy use of a prized possession will increase its longevity, not the owner's.

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When being shameless, one should be unashamedly shameless.

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I realise there’s a cloud always hanging over me so I never look up.

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The question is:

Whether be a part of the pack or be apart from the pack?

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Fame and greatness are often confused because they frequently coincide. But either is not the other.

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From obsessing about what could not be to thinking about what possibly could be not.

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A desperate search for peace is often mistaken to be drastic depression.

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In my mind, I am running over and over again races that I lost decades back. The only difference being that the competitors are new, younger, much better, more enviable.

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I can now stop being an escapist.

I escaped.

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A job is not slavery; the job is to be a slave.

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Looking back, funnily enough, what stands out are the missing pieces.

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"Change before you have to" - Jack Welch

And disappear before they make you

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When you come to know what you do not know today, you will know more or different about what you think you knew earlier.

The present is merely a veil between the past and the future. Every so often, it goes up and the two amalgamate into one.

These are the instances of blinding flashes of realisation, epiphanies and eureka moments.