Things that Bansai left for us

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"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
— Edgar A. Shoaff


bansaisequoia
April 2, 2012, 7:07 pm
Hey, you're just not thinking Madison Ave enough. If we say it's 100% natural, but in actuality it's 20% preservatives, emulsifiers, stabilizers and artificial colors, you're still getting a 4/5 truth. That's way more truthiness than a half truth.

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"There is no glory in outstripping donkeys."
— Marcus Valerius Martial

bansaisequoia
May 28, 2010, 3:21 pm
D'oh! I thought for sure he was talking about monkeys at typewriters.

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"Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing."
— Alexandre Dumas

bansaisequoia
March 25, 2009, 12:31 am
Some might think the author of this quote was a Dum as.

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"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. "
— Ronald Reagan


pootie49
March 22, 2009, 8:52 pm
you should take a look at china
bansaisequoia
October 1, 2009, 12:58 am
Don't encourage them. We've already spent more than ten billion a month on Iraq.
countessofmontecry
February 7, 2011, 3:03 am
This was a nod to his good friends in the Military Industrial Complex, who, in turn, supported him comfortably for the rest of his life, are still supporting Nancy, and are continually refurbishing his "Library" and reburnishing his image. Fear makes a lot of money for some folks.
kb77
October 22, 2011, 11:25 am
true, countess, but without a strong military, we certainly would not survive as a nation. right or wrong, tis the way of the world.
bansaisequoia
April 13, 2012, 6:12 pm
Then how does Vanuatu survive as a nation?

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"The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. "
— Theodore Roosevelt

bansaisequoia
December 27, 2009, 7:34 pm
Sooooo... what didn't you want them to uncover?

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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. "
— Jonathan Swift

bansaisequoia
October 7, 2009, 10:54 pm
If all whores wear rouge, they can pass for virtuous women.

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"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."
— Edward Thomas

bansaisequoia
April 9, 2010, 10:53 pm
What about cut flowers?

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"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. "
— C. Neil Strait

bansaisequoia
March 11, 2010, 1:20 pm
What can you say for a guy so obscure he doesn't have a wikipedia entry?

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"Don't get suckered in by the comments - they can be terribly misleading."
— Dave Storer

pootie49
October 9, 2009, 2:36 pm
Shouldn't it be...they can be terribly misleading??

bansaisequoia
July 29, 2010, 6:16 pm
That would be splitting an infinitive. It's actually more proper to say "...boldly to go where no one has gone before..."

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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class."
— Aristotle

rushbabyno1
April 3, 2010, 11:02 am
aka tea party
montyb
March 23, 2012, 12:44 pm
Tea party is a whiney minority that has gotten more press than it deserved. The true middle class would include people of all political leanings.
bansaisequoia
December 6, 2012, 2:44 pm
And they engage in perverse activities. (link)

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"Progress always involves risk - you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base."
— Frederick Wilcox

bansaisequoia
May 26, 2009, 12:15 am
Who's on first? What's on second?
pootie49
August 23, 2011, 3:39 pm
theres progress in baseball?

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"I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts."
— Oliver Goldsmith

bansaisequoia
March 8, 2012, 8:01 pm
His Grace, the Right Honourable Reverend Lord John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt IV, Esquire. (Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental)
gryhnd51
November 24, 2012, 3:59 am
You must have been a boyscout, Joseph.

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"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
— Robert R. Coveyou

bansaisequoia
August 7, 2011, 8:20 pm
Bazinga!

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"I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the young men of the Middle Ages entirely to the want of the soothing weed. "
— Jerome K. Jerome

pootie49
April 18, 2009, 4:26 pm
and the current ages as well
bansaisequoia
August 22, 2009, 12:28 am
Is he referring to tobacco?
matarisa
April 13, 2011, 12:52 am
Weed, in his day, was tobacco. He wrote "Three Men in a Boat." And it should be a K.

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"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. "
— Rebecca West

pootie49
March 26, 2009, 2:53 am
as one idiot to another...phooey
smoochie222
April 11, 2009, 12:16 am
I am not an idiot
pootie49
June 30, 2009, 12:43 am
i take back my earlier comment...and agree with smoochie
bansaisequoia
October 7, 2009, 10:47 pm
Lunachicks and he-dee-uts.