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quote[0]='I do not wish to fight.  I do whatever I can to avoid it.  I train in karate so that if someone else forces a fight upon me his chances of winning will be greatly reduced.';
quote[1]='It takes more than the occasional \"oos\" or a knowledge of technique to make a martial artist.  The art must also be lived, all day, every day.  It must touch, positively, everything you do.';
quote[2]='When a person who is not a martial artist watches you execute kata, he should see two things; first, he should see that you are not merely dancing, but are engaged in a serious fight; second, he should see that you are winning.';
quote[3]='The most effective weapon a martial artist can bring to bear in any situation is his mind.  Regardless of the skill or strength of the opponent, the artist who can think quickly and with wisdom has the decided edge.';
quote[4]='A master of great renown would accept as his students only well-established senseis.  He explained that, if he were to teach just anyone who came to learn, that it would take up valuble time in his declining years, and he would not be certain that what he taught would go beyond his dojo.  In accepting only senseis, he knew that his knowledge would be passed on.';
quote[5]='A skillful swordsman, winner of a number of contests, bowed before the most famous master of the sword anywhere.  \"What do you wish to learn from me?\" the master asked.  \"I wish to learn more than I know.\" replied the swordsman.<br>\"I have seen you fight,\" said the master, \"and I cannot show you any techniques that you do not already practice expertly.\"<br>\"Yes, master.\" said the swordsman, \"I already know the \'what\' and the \'how\' of the sword.  I ask that you teach me the \'why\'.\"<br>And so he did.';
quote[6]='As you practice, so will you fight.  If you do not practice as if your life depends on it, neither will you be able to fight as if your life depends on it.';
quote[7]='The Kiai is a weapon that you can always have.  If you do not learn to use it well, if you feel silly screaming so as to shatter boulders when you practice, it will not be there when you need it.';
quote[8]='In this dojo everyone works, nothing is free, and all start at the bottom.';
quote[9]='A weak kiai is an insult.';
quote[10]='In this dojo you do not compete against anyone but yourself.  Your sempais should not use your inexperience just to show how much more than you they know.  It is part of their training to see to it that you succeed.';
quote[11]='If you do not wish to dedicate yourself to the training, don\'t come here.  If you would rather be doing something else, by all means go and do it.';
quote[12]='It is the way of young people to not pay close attention, to find humour in what others take seriously.  This is why they need to grow up, and you cannot let them do it by themselves.';
quote[13]='Kata is the ART of the Martial Arts.  It is a make-believe fight where you practice using multiple techniques against multiple opponents.  There is also much of dance in kata, requiring skill, and rythm, and grace.  It is discipline.  It is motion plus emotion.  As good as you may be, you can always improve your kata.  Without kata, the most you\'ll ever be is a street brawler.';
quote[14]='There are teachers who will charge you much money and teach you very little.  They will give you a new colored belt every four months as long as you pay them.  Avoid these teachers and their schools.  They cheapen all the legitimate effort of real martial artists.';
quote[15]='Q. If practice makes perfect, what does perfect practice make?<br><br>A. The practice of perfection.';
quote[16]='Do not disparage those who practice different styles than the one you\'ve trained in.  The ranges of style and technique, of history and tradition, of geneology and heritage are all very broad, but there is only one Art.  Even the very best can only claim to own but a piece of it.';
quote[17]='There is always someone out there better than you are.  The best martial artists, knowing this, do not concern themselves with who may or may not be better than they.  They merely continue getting better themselves.';
quote[18]='\"How do I know what decisions I should make?\" a student asked his master.<br><dd>\"Making good decisions comes from wisdom.\" the master replied.<br>\"And how can I gain wisdom?\" the student continued.<br><dd>\"Wisdom comes from experience.\" the master explained.<br>\"And how do I gain experience?\" he persisted.<br><dd>\"By making bad decisions.\" was the master\'s reply.';
quote[19]='Watch!  Notice how those who are best at kata always seem to be the best fighters, too.  There is a reason for this.';
quote[20]='There is a class of people called \"permanent brown belts.\"  These are the ones who, after all the time and effort it takes to get a brown belt, retire telling themselves that they \"could have had a black belt if they had felt like staying.\"  I say that this is untrue.  A chief quality of a black belt is that she gives what it takes, she stays the course.  If you quit when you get your brown belt, you just aren\'t black belt material.';
quote[21]='A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, steer a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.<br><br>Specialization is for insects.<p align=\"right\">-- R. A. Heinlein</p>';
quote[22]='One of the most telling indications of the Philosophy of Karate is that all of our kata, all of them, begin with a defensive motion.';
quote[23]='If you are \"doing\" karate, do it well.  Give it all your attention and effort whenever you train.  If you only want to give a half effort, if you are looking for praise without accomplishment, if you are unwilling to look a hard task in the eye and conquer it, then go do something else where they like that kind of thing.';
quote[24]='If you want to learn how to make excellent cabinets you apprentice yourself to a master cabinet maker.  He\'ll show you how to do the basic things, then you start making cabinets.  The more cabinets you make the better your cabinets will be.  It is the same with fighting, except that instead of improving your fighting skills by getting involved in one fight after another, you practice kata.';
quote[25]='No one gets hurt in this dojo.  If you don\'t listen to instruction, if you don\'t wait for the command, if you don\'t pay attention to what you are doing someone\'s going to get hurt.  We can\'t have that.  No one gets hurt in this dojo.';
quote[26]='I love push-ups!';
quote[27]='Curl your toes back.  It hurts when you break them, and you\'ll break them if you don\'t curl them back.';
quote[28]='Anything that\'s free is worth what you pay for it.';
quote[29]='A famous master and one of his students observed a fox chasing a rabbit.  \"The fox will eat well today!\", said the student.<br>\"Perhaps not\" replied the master.<br>\"But the fox is faster and stronger\" said the student.<br>\"That may be so\" said the master, \"but the fox is only running for his dinner.  The rabbit is running for his life.\"';
quote[30]='Many students complain that, coming to the dojo week after week, they never seem to learn much that is new.  Perhaps they would be happier if they were shown a new kata every week.  In twenty weeks they\'d have a black belt and know absolutely nothing.';
quote[31]='I think that those \"self defense classes\" that are held occasionally to show a few techniques to women and children are nice, but they are not worth much.  Six weeks after the course the students will have forgotten everything and be in even more danger, since now they think they are trained.';
quote[32]='The dojo is where you go to make mistakes.  You are expected to make mistakes there.  The dojo is a low risk environment where the worst mistake will cost no more than a few pushups.  Outside the dojo walls even a slight mistake can carry a severe penalty.  Be aware of this.';
quote[33]='When you watch a \"martial arts\" movie you will be able to enjoy it as long as you realize that what you are seeing is essentially a lie, or, to be kinder, a \"tall tale\".  The star can punch and kick his way through a horde of opponents and not feel anything.  He can take blow after blow with barely a wince of discomfort.  He can fly through the air with that pretty side kick fully extended.  Real fights are not like that at all.  They generally last no more than a few seconds before they wind up a grappling contest on the ground.  No matter how well conditioned you are, getting solidly punched or kicked can disable you.  Punching someone in the head can break even the strongest hand.  Be aware of this.';
quote[34]='As soon as you put on a gi and a white belt most jurisdictions will consider you to be a \"trained fighter.\"  You will be held to a higher standard of responsibility than the punk who is in your face or the addict who needs money to support his habit.  Be aware of this.';
quote[35]='The scum on the street have nothing to lose.  You have everything to lose.  Don\'t expect the fact that you were \"in the right\" to get you out of jail or prevent you from being sued.  There are those who are out there just waiting to take everything you have.  They may try to use force or weapons, since that is quickest, but they are prepared to use the law and the courts if they have to.  Be aware of this.';
quote[36]='A black belt is not a goal in karate.  Karate is not goal-oriented.  The concentration is on the learning and practicing, growing and perfecting.  Too many people achieve a black belt training level and think they are finished.  The brand-new black belt your Sensei hangs on your hips means that you have made it through the foothills and are now entitled to start climbing the mountain.';
quote[37]='A true martial artist will do whatever she can to avoid a fight, even to the point of appearing a coward in front of others.  This is a good way to be, and a commendable point of view.';
quote[38]='The only good thing about a fight is its ending.  If you have your wits about you (and are lucky, too) you won\'t become involved in a fight.  If you do become involved in a fight, end it as quicky as possible.';
quote[39]='When you are attacked, when time seems to be shortened, when all the violence in the world seems to be happening where you are, when you have no time to think about or consider the situation, you will do what you have been trained to do.  It is that simple.  And if you have not been trained to do anything, you will do nothing.';
quote[40]='The rank of 1st Kyu is often held to be the best rank in the Dojo.  You get respect. All recognize you for knowing much. You are called upon to assist your Sensei and are treated nearly as an equal.  Yet, as you are still an underbelt, the occasional mistake is not a major embarrassment.  You are not expected to be perfect.<br><br>This changes when you are awarded your black belt.  You cannot afford to make mistakes as they reflect badly upon your Sensei and are a scandal to the underbelts.  That\'s why the anxiety level rises sharply when your Sensei tells you to prepare for your Black Belt Test.';
quote[41]='The very best way to avoid a punch is not to be there in the first place.';
quote[42]='Anyone can walk in and strap on a black belt.  He may, of course, be required to defend it.';
quote[43]='He is able who thinks he is able.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Gautama Buddha</i></p>';
quote[44]='To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Francis Crawford</i></p>';
quote[45]='Whether you think that you can, or you can\'t, you are usually right.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Henry Ford</i></p>';
quote[46]='The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Robert G. Ingersoll</i></p>';
quote[47]='The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Franklin D. Roosevelt</i></p>';
quote[48]='Practice is the best of all instructiors.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Publius Syrus</i></p>';
quote[49]='Fall seven times, stand up eight.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Japanese Proverb</i></p>';
quote[50]='An unwillingness to deal forcibly with violence does not equate to moral rectitude.</p>';
quote[51]='\"You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.\"<p align=\"right\"><i> -- Gichin Funakoshi </i></p>';
quote[52]='\"The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.\" <p align=\"right\"><i>-- Master Gichin Funakoshi</i></p>';
quote[53]='\"God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.\" <p align=\"right\"><i>-- J. M. Barrie<br>Author of <b>Peter Pan</b>.</i></p>';
quote[54]='<center>The Little Man and the Man of Tao.</center><br><dd>When the little man receives his first dan, he can hardly wait to run home and shout at the top of his voice to tell everyone that he made his first dan. Upon receiving his second dan, he will climb to the rooftops and shout to the people.  Upon receiving his third dan, he will jump into his automobile and parade through town with horns blowing, telling one and all about his third dan.<br><br><dd>When a man of Tao receives his first dan, he will bow his head in gratitude.  Upon receiving his second dan, he will bow his head and shoulders.  Upon receiving his third dan, he will bow to the waist and quietly walk alongside the wall so that people will not see him or notice him.<p align=\"right\"><i>Sometimes attributed to<br>-- Master Gichin Funakoshi</i></p>';
quote[55]='Talent you get from God.  You cannot take credit for it yourself.';
quote[56]='There are three necessary factors to personal success:<ol><li>Talent - which you get from God.<li>Opportunity - this comes plentifully from God, but you have to sieze it and make the most of it.<li>Desire - this comes totally from yourself, and neither talent nor opportunity will make up for its lack.</ol>';
quote[57]='Men who stand for nothing will generally fall for anything.';
quote[58]='Courage is not to be without fear. Courage is to do what you know you must in spite of your fear.';
quote[59]='There are few things in the entire world sadder than a Black Belt who stops training.';
quote[60]='Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Dave Barry</i>';
quote[61]='The stream never flows backward. The water slips past, past, past... but the moon doesn\'t move. In a contest the mind must be like the moon, while the body and time slip past, past, past like the water in the stream.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Taisen Deshimaru<br>The Zen Way to the Martial Arts</i>';
quote[62]='There is a saying that \"any place can be a dojo,\" and that is a saying that anyone who wants to follow the way of karate must never forget. Karate-do is not only the acquisition of certain defensive skills but also the mastering of the arts of being a good and honest member of society.<p align=\"right\"><i>Gichin Funakoshi<br>Karate-Do: My Way of Life</i>';
quote[63]='When you come to realize that a blackbelt is not as important as the practice itself, you are probably approaching the black belt level. When you realize that no matter how long or hard you train, there is a lifetime of study and practice ahead of you until you die, you are probably getting close to a black belt.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Kensho Furuya<br>Kodo: Ancient Ways</i>';
quote[64]='Karate begins and ends with courtesy.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Gichin Funakoshi</i>';
quote[65]='Do not think that you have to win, but think that you do not have to lose.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Gichin Funakoshi</i>';
quote[66]='There is no first attack in karate.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Gichin Funakoshi</i>';
quote[67]='We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an art, but a habit.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Aristotle</i>';
quote[68]='The essence of the martial art is not the strength, not the art, but that which is hidden deep within yourself.<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Gogen Yamaguchi</i>';
quote[69]='\"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay it\'s price.\"<p align=\"right\"><i>-- Sun Tzu</i>';
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