“To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”

—  Bruce Lee

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 30

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Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f… 1940–1973

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