A Quote by Takeda Nobushige
One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.
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Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.
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He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn’t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier’s head. He didn’t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?
In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.
Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.
If its proven that there's racial abuse, the team's fans where there's abuse should quit the game as a loss and the result should go to the winner basically.
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