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"It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish."
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"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
"Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections."
"You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies."
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
"Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy."
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
"Skills and special abilities will only grow if you practice more. You become a star-performer by doing. Let performance and production of desired results become a consistent habit associated with your personal brand."
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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
"I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind."
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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