"If there is effort, there is always accomplishment."

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Source : "Black Belt: Judo Skills and Techniques". Book by Neil Ohlenkamp, p. 36, 2006.

Kano Jigoro

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“The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.”
“All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection”
“The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online.”
“The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.”

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“Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.”
“Now it's not D.T.F., It's now, diapers, tantrums and formula.”
“I would never remake something that was like 'The Godfather.' Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.”
“You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.”

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