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"There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought."
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"A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred."

"Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master."

"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."

"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

"True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible."

"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."
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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."

"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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