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.
ROBERT GREENEYou 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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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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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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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