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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.

Robert Greene

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
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
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
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
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
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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Creativity Dead Energy Fast Future Hate Job Life Myself Thinking Worst
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
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
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
If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Drive Enough Hard Life Yourself
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
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
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
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
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
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
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
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
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
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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Big Entertainment Moments Problem Stand
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong

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