"Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa."

-- Gichin Funakoshi

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“You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.”
“Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.”
“All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris
“Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.”
“Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.”
“I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.”
“... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
“The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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