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Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

Robert Greene

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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Close Enemy Friendship Power Stability Transformation
If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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Creation Position Thinking Worry Yourself
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Climb Failure Fall Rush
If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
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Distance Fight Life Morality Myself Passive Power Right Struggle
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Commitment Fools Independence Maintain Master People Play Pursue Rush Side Yourself
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
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Battle Beyond Calculation Focus Goal Present Reach Strategy Yourself
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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Hurt Myself People
Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Action Argument Win

Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

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