"When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo. So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students."

-- Toshitsugu Takamatsu

#Eight Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.”
“The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.”
“I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.”
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
“The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.”
“Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.”

Source : Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin
“Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.”
“It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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