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Law 34: Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one

Royal King Act like One
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To survive, you need to be useful
Survive Useful Need
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Educated Mind Entertain Thought
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on Gods side, for God is always right.
Greatest Whether Concern God
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You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Great Start Have You
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If you go out looking for friends, you’re going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Friend Scarce Looking Everywhere
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You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Winner Born Plan Expect
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The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

Grateful Have More What
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Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
Learn People Mistakes Some
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

When Infinitely Tough Easier
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“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

History World Nations Strong
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Know Study Action Process
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I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

Wish Long Covet Myself
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Accept People Inspire Dwell
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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

Compare Cease Peace Live
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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction

Knowledge Skill Float Empty
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The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Mistake Outcome Victory Nature
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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

Determine Trouble Reject Ambition
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Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Because Want Pattern Become
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

Life Trade Squeeze Pattern
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It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is ho

Shame Knock Down Reflect
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Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everyb

Angry Easy Person Purpose
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Who Good Rule First
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Brilliant Achievement Wife Marry
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“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

Build Destroy Task Years
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“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”

Duty Safe Right Fear
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Honest Important Right Thing
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Well Health Wealth Wisdom
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“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”

Important Point Clever Driver
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Certain Prodded Those Anything
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Children Honor Produce Educate
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Nothing Life Shot Result
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Rich Doubt Always Knew
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Light Felt
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Scientist Game Invest Beat
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
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The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Heavy Broken
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

Dream Long Together Time
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Appear Patient Simply Fluff
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Believe Forever Good True
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Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Heroes Turn Who Tell
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