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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Robert Greene

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
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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Close Enemy Friendship Power Stability Transformation
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
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
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
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
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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Assumption Battle Big Past Success Work Yourself
All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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Innovation Money Motivational People Success True
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way 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
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
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
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
Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Action Argument Win
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself

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