Uesugi Kenshin quotes
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“Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.”
-- Uesugi KenshinSource : "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture". Book by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, p. 188, 1970.
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“Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.”
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“Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.”
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“Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.”
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“Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows”
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“Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.”
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“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”
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Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books
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Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House
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