“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”
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Bruce Lee
“Real living is living for others.”
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Bruce Lee
“Anger should be expressed. - Any anger that is not coming out, flowing freely, will turn into sadism, power drive, stammering, and other means of torturing.”
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Bruce Lee
“To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.”
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Bruce Lee
“The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.”
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Bruce Lee
“The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.”
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Bruce Lee
“Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.”
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Bruce Lee
“Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man’s body, his mind, or his spirit.”
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Bruce Lee
“forces. What utter treachery!” Hitler then makes misleading statements about how he and Mussolini had agreed to defend Sicily. The Fuehrer also offers a backhanded apology to the Japanese for allowing a large amount of the Italian Navy to fall into Allied hands. However, it is Hitler’s current plan for the defense of Italy that interests Washington. Oshima quotes him on this as saying: “[The Allies] have two courses: either they will go north in Italy or they will try to land in the Balkans. I am inclined to believe they will take the latter course. I”
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Bruce Lee
“The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. Although this living may not be a real living. God! What contradictions when we seek to join in wedlock life and reason!”
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Bruce Lee
“As you think, so shall you become.”
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Bruce Lee
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
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Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward you goal.”
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Bruce Lee
“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
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Bruce Lee
“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ”
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Bruce Lee
