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I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.

Robert Greene

People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
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 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
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Aware Day Future Yourself
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
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
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
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
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 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
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
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
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 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
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
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
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
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

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