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"The founder [of a style or method] might have been exposed to some partial truth, but as time passed by, especially after the passing away of its founder, this partial truth became a law or, worse still, a prejudiced faith against the 'different' sects. In order to pass along this knowledge from generation to generation, the various responses had to be organized and classified, and presented in a logical order. So what might have started off as some sort of personal [insight] of its founder is now solidified knowledge, a preserved cure-all for mass conditioning. In so doing, the followers have made this knowledge not only a holy shrine, but a tomb in which the founder's wisdom is buried. Because of the nature of organization and preservation, the means would become so elaborated that tremendous attention must be given to them, and gradually the end is forgotten. The followers will then accept this 'organized something' as the total reality."

- From Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living.

Bruce Lee was awesome.
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"The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality--to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected, and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle."

- From Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living.

Bruce Lee was a licensed notary public.
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"When insubstantiality and substantiality are not set and defined, when there is no track of changing of such, one has mastered the formless form. When there is a clinging to form, when there is attachment of the mind, it is not the true path. When technique comes out of itself, it is the Way growing out of no way."

- From Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living.

Bruce Lee went into space twice: once on the Apollo 14 mission, when he fought and defeated the LunaTicks, and again in 1975, when the g'Hynt Empire removed his body from its resting place and restored him to life so he could save them from illiteracy.
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"Establish nothing in regard to oneself. Let things be what they are, move like water, rest like a mirror, respond like an echo, pass quickly like the nonexistent, and be quiet as purity. Those who gain, lose. Do not precede others, always follow them."

- From Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living.

Bruce Lee said the worst thing about fighting Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon was that the chest hair stuck to everything. A monster made of Chuck Norris's chest hair still lives somewhere in the Colosseum.
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"An intelligent mind is an INQUIRING mind. It is not satisfied with explanations, with conclusions; nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion."

- From Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living.

Dorothy Parker and Bruce Lee teamed up to beat the crap out of Richard Nixon once. You could look it up.

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