1. Geometrically expanding complexity
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2. Balancing mind and spirit
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3. The value of restraint and inscrutability
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4. Wisdom and Skillful Means
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5. Always stay needed, indispensable if possible
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6. Completeness
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7. Less praise, less competition
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8. The Highest Realization
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9. Least expected, most esteemed
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10. Fame and Fortune
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11. Turn friends into teachers
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12. Never finish
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13. Seeing through deception
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14. Surface and Substance
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15. Learn from the Wise
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16. Skillful Means and Wisdom
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17. Competition
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18. Ability and Attitude
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19. Under Promise, Over Deliver
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20. Only wisdom discovers immortality
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21. Luck and Wisdom
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22. Knowledge, conversation, and wit
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23. Impeccable Integrity
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24. Tame and use imagination wisely
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25. Freeing our impressions from deception
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26. Influence and control
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27. Depth versus Breadth
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28. Cut the chains of Popular Approval and Empty Praise
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29. Integrity
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30. Right Livelihood
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31. Bad Luck
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32. Doing Good
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33. Discipline
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34. Prioritize your Best
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35. Prioritizing and Planning Ahead
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36. Guiding Luck
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37. Skillful Subtlety
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38. Strategic Withdrawl
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39. Harvest
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40. Goodwill
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41. Exaggeration
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42. Leadership
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43. Inscrutable
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44. Kinships of Mind and Heart
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45. Caution
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46. Projection
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47. Less Commitment, More Success
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48. Personal Depth
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49. Discriminating Awareness
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50. Defend Your Self-Respect
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51. Making Good Decisions
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52. Don't Say It
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53. Make Haste Slowly
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54. Courage
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55. Skillful Waiting
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56. Spontaneous Insight
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57. Quickly done, quickly undone
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58. Less But More
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59. Temporary Success
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60. Reason
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61. Mediocrity
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62. Tools
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63. Innovators
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64. Idiot Compassion
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65. Taste
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66. The End Justifies the Means
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67. Prestigious Professions
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68. No risks, no gains
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69. Self-Knowledge
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70. How to say "no"
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71. Consistent Dependability
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72. Determination
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73. Skillful Evasion
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74. Stay Approachable
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127. Wounded Fingers
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75. Emulation
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76. Joking
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77. Be All Things to All People
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78. Fools Rush In
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79. Cheerful Humor
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80. Fake News
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81. Become a Phoenix of Rebirth
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82. Don't Drink the Dregs
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83. Avoid Perfection
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84. Useful Enemies
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127. Marketing
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85. Avoid the Limelight
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86. Dodging Slander
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87. Culture Defines the Person
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88. Discerning Attention
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89. Mind Mirrors
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90. Long Life
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91. Doubt and Action
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