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Postby yat_chum » Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:13 am

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:06 am

Run! Yes. A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger...fear...aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice. Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)

Fear is the path to the dark side... fear leads to anger... anger leads to hate.. hate leads to suffering. Yoda (The Phantom Menace)
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:45 am

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:51 am

Therefore those who win every battle are not really skillful - those who render others’ armies helpless without fighting are the best of all.
Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Planning a Siege
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:51 pm

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Balzac (1799-1850) French Novelist
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:08 am

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Bertha Calloway
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:45 am

Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and hereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.
Sun-tzu, The Art of War.
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:25 am

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:23 am

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:30 am

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:43 am

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:56 am

Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:11 am

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:50 am

For some reason yesterdays TFTD did not post so here it is again, sorry :oops:

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein


and here is todays


"Believe in your sensei, but at the same time you must never surrender the right to think for yourself."
Sensei Harry Cook
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:49 am

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:18 am

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
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Postby Jucudeno » Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:12 pm

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Ghandi
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:01 am

Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.
- Deng Ming-Dao
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:01 am

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:24 am

“You might as well stand and fight because if you run, you will only die tired.”
Vern Jocque - Sei Shin Kan.
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