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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.

Robert Greene

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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Function Genius Knowledge Master Talent Time
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Drive Enough Hard Life Yourself
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Climb Failure Fall Rush
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
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Production Serious Thinking Work
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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Blame People Try World
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
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
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself

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