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Chris Matakas

"Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create."

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Donna Grant

"The real safety net of life is community, family and nature."

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Donna Grant

"We are members of the Church of Christ."

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Donna Grant

"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."

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Donna Grant

"If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you."

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Donna Grant

"We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of the earth and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kids are sleeping and eat cake and friend chicken and shit. Why d'you think Hollis is still sleeping, kafir? Because we were up all night in the secret lair injecting butter frosting into our veins. ...A fatty trusts another fatty."

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Donna Grant

"When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin."

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Donna Grant

"It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding."

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Donna Grant

"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."

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Donna Grant

"Only the church can provide people with quality fellowship."

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Donna Grant

"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."

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Chris Matakas
"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."

Mindfulness

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Chris Matakas
"I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu."

Health

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Chris Matakas
"When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else."

Life

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Chris Matakas
"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."

Meaning

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Chris Matakas
"We must strive to become more daily. We must honestly assess our weaknesses and overcome them. We must work toward the highest possible version of ourselves. This is a worthy use of our time, but it is only when we do so with the ultimate aim of service to our fellow man that we really connect with something greater than ourselves. To contribute to the world in a positive way, this is the gift of life."

Purpose

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Chris Matakas
"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."

Failure

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Chris Matakas
"The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become."

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Chris Matakas
"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."

Education

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Chris Matakas
"By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim."

Achievement

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Chris Matakas
"I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others."

Ethics

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