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"Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli."
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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

"It's strange how money seems to silence a neighborhood," I say quietly. "On my street, where no one has money, it's so loud. Sirens blaring, people shouting, car doors slamming, stereos thumping. There's always someone, somewhere, making noise."
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"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."

"Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes."

"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."

"The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go."

"I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education."

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

"He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few."

"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."
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