"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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Uesugi Kenshin
Uesugi Kenshin 上杉 謙信 (18 February 1530 – 19 April 1578) was a samurai warlord who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan.
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