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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Robert Greene

Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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Disguise Fake Honesty Quality Remember Weapon
You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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Direction Fear Future Head Inspirational Motivational Place Preparation Yourself
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
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
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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Fear Himself Kind Person Side Understand
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
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
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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Assumption Battle Big Past Success Work Yourself
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
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

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