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Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.
Robert Greene
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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
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Lord, protect me from my friends I can take care of my enemies.
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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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In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
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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.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.
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No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.
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I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.
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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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On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.
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