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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Use Work Take Place
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Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Relax State Level Student
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When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Reach Form Water Style
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What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
What Determine Become Think
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Aspect Easy Special Waste
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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction

Knowledge Skill Float Empty
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Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

Fear Better Great Know
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Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Set Form Adapt Grow
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Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Tense Ready Dream Aware
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!

Pride Pain Graze Smash
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The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Mistake Outcome Victory Nature
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Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Those Seek Light Walk
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Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing

Time Because Learn Forever
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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

Determine Trouble Reject Ambition
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“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.”

Hope Last Appease Feeds
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

Solitary Grow Strong They
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“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”

First What Sentence With
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”

Bear Duty British Empire
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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Best Know Skill Inevitable
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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

War Blunder Main Catalogue
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“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

War Often Life Fail
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“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”

War Success Deserve One
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“If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.”

Grace Best Possible Submit
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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.”

Love Great Freedom Justice
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Curse Mortal Cruel Short
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“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.”

Logic Innovation Guide Beware
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If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of
Love Life Waste Time
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Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Because Want Pattern Become
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Prompt Never Away
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But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Justify Alive Invite Wind
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Pray Easy Life Endure
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Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality

State Mind Defeat Reality
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Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Never Which Begin End
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Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory

Finger Away Moon Glory
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The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action

Self Great Proper Action
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What is” is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.

More Should People Think
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Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
Endure Cease Work Lost
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

Life Trade Squeeze Pattern
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to s

Harmony Strength Force Natural
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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Allow Negative Weed Mind
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Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged
Man Defeat Discourage Remember
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It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is ho

Shame Knock Down Reflect
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Reduce Double Run
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

False Word Evil Infect
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“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival. ”

Victory Hard Cost Terror
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Point Africa World Draw
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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respect to the Indians, because the very idea of America belongs to immigrants.
Respect Idea America Belong
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When you’re a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

City Habit Pattern Gain
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America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

Always Define Stand More
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