Soke Quotes

#1. PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ...
Beat that for a PC opening line ... not

Richard Stark

#2. Karate without heart is just A corpse

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#3. Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance

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#4. Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality

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#5. Don't dwell in comparisons; be your own kinda' beautiful

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#6. A true martial artist welcomes change; He is A catalyst, A cause, A force of nature

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#7. Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills.

Ray Simpson

#8. Hopefully a preacher didn't need anyone murdered.

James S.A. Corey

#9. The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

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#10. There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Antonio Tabucchi

#11. Real Martial Arts is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation in Action

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#12. To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, wisdom and years of training

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#13. Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks

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#14. At the heart of the human condition, we might say, is an epistemological sin - the refusal to acknowledge what can be known about God and then to respond appropriately: "Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him" (Rom. 1:21). They engage in willful blindness.

Nancy Pearcey

#15. I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.

Eloisa James

#16. An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness

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#17. The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#18. . . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare
- Diary of A Combat Fiend

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#19. . . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence

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#20. A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

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#21. The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind

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#22. Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

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#23. And hidden within the agony the strange clarity came again, as if the world had ordered itself into something that made perfect sense.

Scott Westerfeld

#24. A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

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