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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.

Robert Greene

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
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Climb Failure Fall Rush
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
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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Consumption Creativity Fact Goal Happiness Limitation
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
A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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Big Entertainment Moments Problem Stand
You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
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
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Development Transformation World Worth Yourself
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
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
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Creativity Life Positive Rule Therapy World
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
Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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Brutal Philosophy Respect Yourself

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