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leeway for others in the running of our lives,
we might not get to know ourselves or its potential.
244.We cannot survive solely in the realm of the past, however grand,
for the rest of our existence.
245.Awareness come not only from work of others but from our own
observation as well.
246.Sanity should not be confused with conformity.
247.A philosopher is one who roams through the wilderness of
specifics in order to derive compact and representative generalisations .
248.The fire within heats us to action or burns us to oblivion.
249.Desperation heeds not reason, decorum or consent.
250.We criticise others well and convincingly. Can we do the same for
ourselves or will it take another to see the cracks on our crystal ?
251.When one is too enmeshed in light matters, serious matters become
heavy burdens.
252.Being out of touch from the familiar makes the return strange.
253.The superfluous are decorations built from the base of essentials.
We can add them on or discard them when it pleases us or when
prodded by necessity but we cannot dispense with the essentials.
254.How well we perform a task reflects how much we have learned.

How well we perform a task reflects our aptitude level.
255.When a situation is prevalent, a deviation is seen as an exception,
anomaly or luxury.
256.Life comes to us in fragments .We have to link the pieces to find
our
place in it.
257.We express knowledge in full, in portions, always or at times.
We admit ignorance in full, in portions, always or at times.
258.Process involves cause and transition of former states to that of
latter or resulting states and eventual outcome.
259.For one to know intellectual fullness and depth, one must
beforehand be submerged in the levity of banality. The two states come
in intervals.
260.We develop our intellect by striving to know what others know.
We advance our minds by formulating what others know not.
261.Impulse demands for attention .It is our discretion which chooses
to
see to its needs or to ignore it.
262.We are too preoccupied with singular functions which deal with
worldly tasks. It is akin to acknowledging the individual components of
a contraption and not the reason for its invention.
263.Philosophy and deep rumination is often ill considered by those in
the fever and throes of the rat race.
264.In order to relate to a state, experience of that state comes to play.
265.Some things lose their appeal when they lose their novelty.

266.Be sure to secure the base of or triumph at the time of glory lest it
be eroded when it is our turn to face the brink.
267.We regard time spent on a matter only to find it unsuitable for our
purpose a waste yet it isn?t for the evolution of thought and concepts
have brought us to our present stage besides strengthening our tenacity.
268.A preference may be linked to the emotions or emotional
detachment.
Preferences may be formulated from practical necessity or the heart?s
calling.
269. Bitter or sweet farewells are in synchrony with our emotions at the
time.
270.Little bits of misery is found all over existence and it is unevenly
distributed.
271.One cannot be dogmatic in a game of cat and mouse.
272.We are victims and beneficiaries of our excesses, austerity and
moderation.
273.Between ?could have been? and ?has been? is ? being?.
274.Jadedness is when excitement?s throbs are tempered by
experience.
275.Matters past which we had derived from sources other than
ourselves
is knowledge.
Matters past which we have lived through is
experience. We have knowledge and experience with us.
276.All worthy actions done were done not in vain.

277.Others know us for what we have done.
We know ourselves by what we have done , what we have yet to do ,
what we are capable of and what we cannot do.
278.All of us devour a form of life in order to sustain our own.
279.One sometimes can have no inkling of a matter until it is one?s
turn of fortune to encounter it.
280.One?s taste can be flaunted for show but one?s show is not to
everyone?s taste.
281.Some matters serve a specific purpose while there are those which
possess relevance always.
282.A humorist has laughter to spare and share.
283.Life cannot be considered seriously by one who sees it as a mere
absurdity.
284.Glumness is a disease when and where laughter is infectious.
285.He who laughs last caught the joke last or has a pathetically slow
sense of humour.
286.One who conveys a joke cracks it. One who listens catches it.
287.Humour makes the heavy world a lighter one.
288.Humour lightens and brightens up solemnity.
289.It is logical to limit oneself to necessities in lean times. It is thrift to
limit oneself to necessities in boom times.
290.A sober approach to