
. . . for any worthwhile martial arts skill to be pragmatic, it has to be done live, otherwise it is of limited or no use in actual combat
– Soke Behzad Ahmadi
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- And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. – Oscar Wilde
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- To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu
- Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture. – Sweety Shinde
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- Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. – Frank Herbert
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- Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops. – Sara Sheridan
