Scribbling of Hanxue's thoughts

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Follow not in the footsteps of the masters. Seek out and discover what it is they sought.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Francis Bacon

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

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If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.

Elise Boulding

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The fact that jellyfish have survived for 650 million years despite not having brains gives hope to many people

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4vdn5m/reddit_what_is_an_animal_that_is_not_more_afraid/d5xo240

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Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

Grant Cardone

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Every run. Every drill. Because I want a life of no regrets. 

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Cloud computing, properly done

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This is one of the reasons the rich get richer and the rest of us earn a barely sustainable wage: our main (or primary, in most cases) source of income is our salary. It does not matter that the rich pay at higher tax brackets. Most of the income is from dividends and capital gain. 

Source: Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky

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When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

Howard Schultz

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Science discovers how things work. Engineering is getting things working.

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One day he asked me, 'Mr. Ebbie, is jail a good place to be?' I said, 'Why would you ever ask that?' He said: 'My daddy's in jail and he said he gets three meals a day. And sometimes my mom can't make me food and I'm hungry.' I went home and I cried that night. This is a kindergartner.

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/inequality-in-america-summed-up-by-one-heartbreaking-paragraph--ZJeIsLDkhhg

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Malaysia has one of the highest rate of brain drain in the world (Source: qz.com)

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Instead of motivating people, find highly motivated people and inspire them to greater heights

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So Google Translate understands Hokkien

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If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

Raylan Givens, Justified