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The SamuraiThe sword gleams with a strange beauty. It kills yet saves. That is its secret.The Samurai
But is this the sword's doing? No, the samurai holds the true power.
It is only the samurai who chooses to kill or to protect.
The samurai, a warrior, must accomplish both opposite deeds.
The samurai lives harshly. He must serve but do so honourably.
The Way of the WarriorGo back four hundred years ago to feudal Japan, the pre Tokuwaga era. The time when samurai ruled under lords, daimyos, and every person was put in a social class. The late Taiko, known as Nakamura in Shogun, had changed the rules of the land in his reign. If you were born from a no, ko, or sho (peasant) family, you were a one. In being, you had no real name, and you really didn’t own your own land. You received enough koku, the money, each year to buy rice for your family. You worked all the time, and any time at the demand of your lords. Your lords were the higherThe Way of the Warrior
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Practice makes mah kugfu stronga.
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Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Albert Pike
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