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

Robert Greene

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
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Climb Failure Fall Rush
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.
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Consumption Creativity Fact Goal Happiness Limitation
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
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
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
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
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
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
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
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
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
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
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
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
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Aware Day Future Yourself
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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Bad Believe Blessing Fact Myself Reason
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
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
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
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
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

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