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USA Martial Arts Academy - Teaches several styles of Karate. Describes its courses and offers a self-defense video for children.

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Recreation and Sports He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Recreation and Sports The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Recreation and Sports "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Recreation and Sports Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Recreation and Sports When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Recreation and Sports "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Recreation and Sports An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Recreation and Sports Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Recreation and Sports Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Recreation and Sports Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Recreation and Sports It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Recreation and Sports There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Recreation and Sports When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Recreation and Sports "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
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