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All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
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You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.
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I have the point that everybody essentially have these unique set of DNA you have. There's something different about you genetically. You are unique is what I am trying to say - the combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.
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Lord, protect me from my friends I can take care of my enemies.
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The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
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It's okay to be lost in college.
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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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It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.
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There are things that you study, classes you've taken, activities you've done that feel right, that feel like they're in your power zone. So it doesn't take incredible amount of effort for you to do it - it just comes more naturally to you.
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The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.
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The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
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When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.
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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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I've always loved black culture I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.
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Never be put off by your target's anger it is a sure sign of enslavement.
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You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.
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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen
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