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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.

Robert Greene

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
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
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
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
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
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
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
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
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
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
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try 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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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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