Things that Bansai left for us

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"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
— Frederick Douglass

bansaisequoia
November 15, 2010, 5:13 am
It seems odd that this would be said by a man who escaped from enslavement. Would he not have been held in bondage by people who did not work for all they have?

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"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

bansaisequoia
April 25, 2011, 7:20 am
I'd rather chug my beer quickly, since the Earth is revolving around the sun at about 107,000 kilometers per hour. Did you have any idea you were moving so fast? Even more mind boggling, is to think that the Solar System is moving at approximately 900,000 kilometers per hour around the Milky Way Galaxy. And I won't even get into how fast the Milky Way is moving through our local cluster. Of course, it's all relative.

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"Beware the pull on your heartstrings - it's often the purse strings that are actually being reached for."
— Barbara Mikkelson

silveryaspen
May 11, 2009, 1:57 pm
so is it money, not love, that really makes the world go round?
bansaisequoia
January 20, 2010, 6:36 pm
That's how the song goes. (link) [ Note: Original link doesn't work, try this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8P80A8vy9I ]

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"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."
— R. Buckminster Fuller

bansaisequoia
February 11, 2011, 2:48 am
Hopefully, they're close to extinction, or the human race may well be so.

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"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. "
— Denis Waitley

bansaisequoia
October 22, 2009, 6:45 pm
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.

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"The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. "
— Sir Walter Scott

bansaisequoia
August 29, 2009, 1:29 am
"The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing."--Marcel Proust

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"It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons. "
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

katieftw
December 30, 2009, 12:13 am
The Italian spelling of "Buonaparte" threw me off - is it more standard to use the English spelling "Bonaparte" or am I being an ignorant American (I'm willing to admit that often am quite ignorant).
Lurker
December 31, 2009, 1:35 am
If it is from a written work, they're probably copying the spelling exactly.
bansaisequoia
March 13, 2010, 8:06 pm
Buonaparte was his name at birth. When I read "War & Peace," they used this spelling. (link)
cheryljean777
May 27, 2011, 2:15 pm
Never mind the spelling. What the heck does this even mean?
pootie49
July 9, 2011, 3:37 pm
plain speaking, he is dissing bonapartes family heritage. sort of like a yo mama joke. but in ye olde language.

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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
— Joyce Brothers

bansaisequoia
September 19, 2012, 6:38 pm
If I dated Joyce Brothers, would I be taking out the trash?

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"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies."
— Sarah Palin

jbb33054
October 14, 2011, 10:43 pm
Isn't it strange how the media jumps all over a mistake like this, but for the most part ignored Obama saying he visited 57 states!!!
bansaisequoia
February 16, 2012, 9:52 pm
How did you know about Obama saying he visited 57 states if it wasn't in the media? Were you actually there? (Oh, wait. It was in the media.) Here's the actual slip-up: (link)

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"If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole."
— Bob Dole

bansaisequoia
May 3, 2010, 10:29 pm
I don't know about that. I saw your Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears, Bob Dole.

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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
— Christopher Morley

abra
June 27, 2017, 6:14 pm
And bansai, we'e seen bits of his poetry. Is he a novelist as well?

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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. "
— Dorothy Parker

bansaisequoia
September 3, 2009, 6:11 pm
I'd use a catapult for "Atlas Shrugged," or "Battlefield Earth."

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"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. "
— Mario M. Cuomo

bansaisequoia
May 2, 2010, 4:21 am
Wasn't he the Governor of the state with the Jumbotron in Times Square?

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"Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microorganisms."
— Martin H. Fischer

bansaisequoia
December 30, 2014, 12:35 pm
If you eat meat, fruits and vegetables, you're eating organisms. What's so unappetizing about microorganisms?

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"A good meal ought to begin with hunger. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
August 27, 2011, 12:12 am
What about apéritif, canapé [sic], soup and salad?