"When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner."

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Source : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

Takuan Soho

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“Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.”
“My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.”

Source : "The skip’s good-bye". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. November 10, 2013.
“I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.”

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“I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too.”
“I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.”

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“I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.”

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