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"There is no more valuable skill than studentship. The farther we go down one area of human understanding, the more we see the corollaries that all activities share. Everything I do for the rest of my life, all the skills I acquire, will be made possible because of my time spent on the mats. It has revealed a symbiosis between all things that I never knew existed."
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"The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts."
"We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity."
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"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."
"The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance."
"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
"When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness."
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