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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

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Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.
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But to those who kept saying It can't be done, Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind.
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Defeat is a state of mind no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
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What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
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Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.
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