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Judo
Martial art and a combat and Olympic sport. Judo (from jūdō "gentle way") was born in Japan in 1882, developed by Jigorō Kanō as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy.
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[...] before you can control your opponent's body you must first control his mind.
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― Principles and Practice of Aikido
― Principles and Practice of Aikido
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Oh ho, the private eyeball! Poor, prosaic, wretched eyeball. Alas, alack, woe and whoa! Harder and faster they chain him to the stone of stereotype—more and more he cannot earn his daily bread without conforming to the curious standards so stringently set out for him. Once upon a time he had to talk from out of the side of stiff-lipped mouth in accents clipped and surly, and there was the bleak but sheer necessity of constant sexual acrobatics with each and every lady who entered within earshot
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― Death of a Flack
― Death of a Flack
