Training is not knowledge and knowledge is not strength. But combine knowledge with training and one will get strength. | |
— The Book Of Sinanju | |
[I have a large number of “quotes” in my journal which are simply attributed to “House of Sinanju”. I am sure they are all (each) from one of the 70+ books in “The Destroyer” series (co-written by Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy) which I was reading back in the 1970’s. I didn’t record which book each quote came out of at the time I found them. So, I’m just leaving them as recorded. If anyone finds the book with the quote in it, and lets me know, I will be happy to attribute the quote accurately. — KMAB] | |
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2015 | Treasures Of The Mind |
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2011 | Is It Your Turn Yet? |
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Posts Tagged ‘House Of Sinanju’
To Get Strength
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged House Of Sinanju, Knowledge, My Journal, Philosophy, Richard Sapir, Strength, The Destroyer, Training, Warren Murphy on April 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Trying To Ignite Ice
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Chiun, House Of Sinanju, My Journal, On Morality, Quotes, Remo Williams, The Destroyer #30: Muggers Blood, The Destroyer Series on June 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »
“You will always be a child if you expect men to be more than they are. If you are walking through the woods, you do not get angry at a tree that happened to grow up directly in your path. The tree could not help it. It existed. You do not sit on the ground in front of that tree and lecture it. You ignore it. And if cannot ignore it, you remove it. So you must act with people. They are for the most part, like trees. They do what they do because they are what they are.” | |
“And so I should ignore all those that I can and remove those that I can’t?” | |
“Now you are seeing the light of wisdom,” Chiun said, folding his hands in front of him with a movement as smooth as an underwater plant. | |
“Chiun, the world you give me is a world without morality. Where nothing counts for anything except keeping your elbow straight and breathing right and attacking correctly. You give me no morality and that makes my happy. Smith gives me a shitpot full of morality and it disgusts me. But, I like his world better than yours.” | |
Chiun shrugged, “That is because you do not understand the real meaning of my world. I do not give you a world without morality. I give you a world of total morality, but the only morality you totally control is your own. Be moral. You can do no greater thing in your life.” He moved his arms around in a large slow circle. “Try to make other people moral and you are trying to ignite ice with a match.” | |
— Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy | |
From their novel: “The Destroyer #30: Muggers Blood“ | |
[I have a large number of “quotes” in my journal which are simply attributed to “House of Sinanju”. I am sure they are all (each) from one of the 70+ books in “The Destroyer” series (co-written by Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy) which I was reading back in the 1970’s. I didn’t record which book each quote came out of at the time I found them. So, I’m just leaving them as recorded. If anyone finds the book with the quote in it, and lets me know, I will be happy to attribute the quote accurately. As this quote followed the entry saying I read #30, I assume the quote is from that book. — KMAB] | |
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2012 | Pleading The Insanity Defense |
2011 | Graduations And Conservatives |
The Big Sin | |
Dignity And Grace
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged House Of Sinanju, My Journal, On Death, On Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Richard Sapir, The Destroyer Series, Warren Murphy on May 14, 2016| Leave a Comment »
One does not ask for life. But it is all you have and you must live it and honor it and at the right time surrender it with the dignity and grace befitting the best that is in you. | |
— House of Sinanju | |
[I have a large number of “quotes” in my journal which are simply attributed to “House of Sinanju”. I am sure they are all (each) from one of the 70+ books in “The Destroyer” series (co-written by Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy) which I was reading back in the 1970’s. I didn’t record which book each quote came out of at the time I found them. So, I’m just leaving them as recorded. If anyone finds the book with the quote in it, and lets me know, I will be happy to attribute the quote accurately. — KMAB] | |
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The Window Left Open
Posted in Leadership, My Journal, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged House Of Sinanju, Leadership, My Journal, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Richard Sapir, The Book Of Sinanju, The Destroyer Series, Warren Murphy on April 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
In the world you will find that men will do what men will do. Learn to anticipate men and you learn to control men. Learn also not to be anticipated. Learn to be like the wind that blows from all sides, then men will look at you and never know what window of their soul to close. | |
— The Book of Sinanju | |
[I have a large number of “quotes” in my journal which are simply attributed to “House of Sinanju“. I am sure they are all (each) from one of the 70+ books in “The Destroyer” series (co-written by Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy) which I was reading back in the 1970’s. I didn’t record which book each quote came out of at the time I found them. So, I’m just leaving them as recorded. If anyone finds the book with the quote in it, and lets me know, I will be happy to attribute the quote accurately. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Reality == Perception / (Times Reported * 10) |
2014 | Tear Da Roof Off Da Sucka |
2013 | Exposed Spirits |
2012 | Ow-ow |
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Changed Clothes Lately?
Posted in History, Humor, My Journal, Quotes, tagged History, House Of Sinanju, Humor, My Journal, Quotes, Richard Sapir, The Destroyer Series, Warren Murphy on January 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Future generations must know the truth for history in the hands of a man who constantly needs to justify himself becomes like a garment that changes for the needs of the weather. Here I set down truth. | |
— House of Sinanju | |
[I have a large number of “quotes” in my journal which are simply attributed to “House of Sinanju“. I am sure they are all (each) from one of the 70+ books in “The Destroyer” series (co-written by Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy) which I was reading back in the 1970’s. I didn’t record which book each quote came out of at the time I found them. So, I’m just leaving them as recorded. If anyone finds the book with the quote in it, and lets me know, I will be happy to attribute the quote accurately. — KMAB] | |
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2015 | Like Stone |
2014 | Resistance Is Futile |
2013 | Subtle Humor |
To Look Behind Green Eyes | |
2012 | The Path Is Endless |
2011 | Happy MLK, Jr Day!!! |
A Factor Of Ten | |
Better Late Than Never? | |
Whoops! | |
Acceptable Beginnings | |
Slow Progress | |
Useful Confrontation | |
When Phenomena Are Different | |
Creative Avoidance | |
Thinking | |
Fast And Flexible | |
Surrender Certainty | |
Techniques | |
Vive La Difference | |
Destiny | |
Completeness | |
Art | |
What Are You Doing?
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged House Of Sinanju, My Journal, On False Love, On True Love, Philosophy, Quotes on October 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »
True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you. | |
— House of Sinanju | |
[A fictional “House” of Korean assassins featured in “The Destroyer” book series. — KMAB] | |
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