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“My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.”
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“What I want you to do is just take it as it is. Don't think too much. If you get involved with thinking about it, the whole thing gets lost or loses its purity. Don't think during practice - DO! The more you think, the further from the truth of budo you get: Budo is NOT an academic subject!”
Source : Masaaki Hatsumi (1988). “The Grandmaster's Book of Ninja Training”, McGraw-Hill Education
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“Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.”
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“The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.”
Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
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“I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.”
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“I've never seen the devil create music.”
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“In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.”
Source : "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007. 
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“All men are brothers. Hence war.”
