Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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• Cutting
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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

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• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

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• Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

  

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• We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

  

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• Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

  

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• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

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• It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.

  

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• Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

  

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• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

  

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• Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • War
  • Action
  • Cutting