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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.

Robert Greene

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
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
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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Deep Desire Follow Master Question Yourself
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
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
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
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
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
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 just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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Hurt Myself People
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
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
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

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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