O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude...

~ George Eliot

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All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?!You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness!Your judgement is shit!Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.

~ Rick Remender

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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

~ Socrates

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Samurai are born to die.Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.

~ Rick Remender

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Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests. In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.

~ Rick Remender

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Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

~ Richard M. Weaver

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