diff --git a/_layouts/default.html b/_layouts/default.html
index 26e786d..4667755 100644
--- a/_layouts/default.html
+++ b/_layouts/default.html
@@ -11,17 +11,6 @@
           <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/" title="Home">{{ site.title }}</a>
           <small>{{ site.tagline }}</small>
         </h3>
-            <br />
-      <blockquote>
-      <p>"Man makes a clever face and talks about being lord on Earth. 
-And at the same time he doesn’t even know where to begin with his own body: 
-he watches 
-sports on television and defends himself saying that everyone else does it too."
-      </p>
-      <p>- <a href="http://antaiji.org/archives/eng/kodo-sawaki-to-you.shtml">Homeless Kodo
-      </a>
-      </p>
-      </blockquote>
       <br />
       {% for page in site.pages_list %}
         &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;