"My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit."

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Lyoto Machida

#Philosophy Quotes #Mma Quotes #Samurai Quotes

“Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.”
“I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.”

Source : Katharine Butler Hathaway (2000). “The Little Locksmith: A Memoir”, p.14, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“â€¦there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creatureâ€¦And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”
“If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.”
“I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.”
“Racism is kinda old. For real.”
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.”
“Yet there are those who wonder. There are those who have gentle stirrings. And there are those who have stepped upon the beautiful threshold of awareness - all on the verge of perceiving that which there is to see. To these ones, I say, open your exquisite senses. Look with fine clarity into that which is beyond and beneath, within and without. In these coming critical times, listen to and heed the directives of your spirits that retain the high wisdom you are just now perceiving.”

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