"Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate."

-- Anko Itosu

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“There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families”
“So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.”
“I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press
“The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.”
“Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.”

Source : Adrian Phoenix, J. F. Lewis, Jeri Smith-Ready (2011). “Urban Fantasy Collection - Vampires: A Rush of Wings, Staked, Wicked Game”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster
“There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.”
“If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.”
“I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.”

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