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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Robert Greene

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
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
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
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
No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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Attention Experience Learning Lesson Moments Pay Wasted Time Yourself
Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Happiness Right Talk Yourself
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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Acceptance Life Role World Yourself
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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Character Creativity Emotion Level Mindset Ourselves Truth
I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
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
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
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Action Argument Win
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
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
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself

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