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thought it would be nice for people to share some of their favorite quotes. You are allowed to post anything in hear.

"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him."....Bruce Le


To Win One Hundred Victories
In One Hundred Battles is not
The Highest Skill.

To Subdue the Enemy
Without Fighting
Is the Highest Skill.

Sun Tzu


"Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied."
--Alexander the Great's Chief Physican


"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and quickly run along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything."

Hagakure Ch1

"Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall there was this one: ''Matters of' great concern should be treated lightly.'' Master lttei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously." Among one's affairs there should not be more than two or three matters of what one could call great concern. If these are deliberated upon during ordinary times, they can be understood. Thinking about things previously and then handling them lightly when the time comes is what this is all about. To face an event anew solve it lightly is difficult if you are not resolved beforehand, and there will always be uncertainty in hitting your mark. However, if the foundation is laid previously, you can think of the saying, "Matters of great concern should be treated lightly," as your own basis for action. "

Hagakure Ch1

"Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will all one day die. It is not that we don't know that we are going to die, but we grasp at straws. While knowing that we will die someday, we think that all the others will die before us and that we will be the last to go. Death seems a long way off.
Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream, It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly."

Hagakure Ch 2

"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." -General Creighton W. Abrams

"Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher" -Alfred de Musset

I dont want to lead the natural best into combat. Those who run through training naturally like a gazelle will be ill prepared when things go wrong, and they do. I want to lead the men who have had to grit and bare and fight in every moment of their training so that when they get hit they know thay can take it, they were never given a free shot.
-Richard Marcinko

"Benevolence to the lost, But not mercy to the Enemy." -Brian Welcher, Founder of Kindai Bujitsu

On this day we embark onto a mission of glory and honor. We will press the enemy to their boundaries and then back again untill we are Victorious. Our cause is one with great importance one that will be told by our childrens children and for generations to come. So today we stand together not as solders but as brothers and sisters so we shall true never fail in achiving our goal.

04/16/06
Feng Dorock

"He who runs with anger, walks without dignity."

When you are facing down opponents and are outnumbered, you will always have one advantage, they are going to overestimate their strength and underestimate yours.

- Never underestimate an opponent.
- Never Overestimate your own skill.
- It doesn't matter who starts it, as long as YOU finish it.
- Women and Children do not belong in the field of Battle.
- Never place an innocent in a battle.

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. 'Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance!' just doesn't cut it…
-Robert Anton Wilson

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense
-Robert Anton Wilson

"Is," "is." "is" -- the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
-Sigismundo Celine

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles
-M. Gabriel Sartines

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
-Anonymous

You never get "outside." What you call "outside" is another part of "inside."
-Anonymous

The function of Law? The recitation of the unintelligible by the unscrupulous to empty the purses of the unwary. The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
-Anonymous

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
-Anonymous

Only the madman is absolutely sure.
-Anonymous

Nuke the whales
-Anonymous

"It's not how many weapons you have. It's how much will you have."