"Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death."

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Source : "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture". Book by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, p. 188, 1970.

Uesugi Kenshin

#Battle Quotes #Wish Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.”
“I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.”
“Appearances are deceiving.”
“People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.”
“I don't want anyone seeing me naked.”
“A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".”
“If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.”
“To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.”

Source : "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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