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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
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America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do -
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
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