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Kano Jigoro

"In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used."

Source : "Judo: The Japanese Art of Self Defense". "A Complete Guide to Judo: Its Story and Practice" by Robert W. Smith, judoinfo.com. 1958.

Kano Jigoro

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“Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.”
“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
“I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.”
“Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”
“We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.”
“Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.”

Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.
“Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.”
“Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.”

Source : Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

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