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To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."
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- Sun-Tsu
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Even though our path is completely different from the warrior arts of the past, it is not necessary to abandon totally the old ways. Absorb venerable traditions into this Art by clothing them with fresh garments, and building on the classic styles to create better forms.
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- Morihei Ueshiban
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As soon as you try to chase and grab Zen, you’ve already stumbled past it."
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- Yuan-Wu
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The fastest draw is when the sword never leaves the scabbard. The strongest way to block is never to provoke a blow. And the cleanest cut is the one withheld."
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- Unknown
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Instructors can bestow only a fraction of there knowledge. Through your own devoted practice and hard work may the mysteries of Martial Arts be brought too life.
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- Duke Swain
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The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred."
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- Jigoro Kano (1860-1938)
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
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- Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ears hear and eyes see, then what does mind do?"
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- Zen saying
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We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."
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- Tao Te Ching
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?"
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- Zen saying
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