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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
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See their profilewhen you study people who've created extraordinary lives, you realize they didn't follow templates for career paths and lifestyles; they designed their own blueprint.
• Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action. • It is desire, not intelligence, that prompts behavior.
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