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Like Everyone Else, You Want To Learn The Way To Win, But Never To Accept The Way To Lose - To Accept Defeat. To Learn To Die Is To Be Liberated From It. So When Tomorrow Comes You Must Free Your Ambitious Mind And Learn The Art Of Dying!

-Bruce Lee

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Like Everyone Else, You

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Like Everyone Else, You Want To Learn The Way To Win, But Never To Accept The Way To Lose - To Accept Defeat. To Learn To Die Is To Be Liberated From It. So When Tomorrow Comes You Must Free Your Ambitious Mind And Learn The Art Of Dying!

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