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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.

Robert Greene

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
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
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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Feeling Kind Life Manifestation Security Talent World Worry Yourself
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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Bad Believe Blessing Fact Myself Reason
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
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
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
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
Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Action Argument Win
The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
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Complain Human Money Obsession Worst Worth Yourself
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
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
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
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble

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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