Things that Bansai left for us

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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
— Desiderius Erasmus

opallady
July 16, 2009, 12:08 am
Chiefest????
bansaisequoia
October 8, 2009, 9:44 pm
(link)

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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. "
— Desiderius Erasmus

opallady
July 25, 2009, 1:18 am
Chiefest?
bansaisequoia
September 29, 2009, 2:53 am
(link)

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"I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record."
— Dylan Thomas

bansaisequoia
March 19, 2010, 9:48 pm
Lighthweight.

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"I'm a really claustrophobic person to begin with. I hate elevators, especially crammed elevators. I get really scared."
— Justin Bieber

pootie49
June 13, 2012, 10:46 am
Again, as a Canadian to the rest of the world... we re sorry. Sadly the tweeners love him so we just couldnt keep him muzzled anymore.
bansaisequoia
July 2, 2012, 7:08 pm
Yeah, well explain Seth Rogen, Celine Dion, Corey Haim and Doug Henning! (Oscar Peterson more than makes up for all four, though.)

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"If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you."
— Ken Flaton

bansaisequoia
September 25, 2011, 9:54 pm
"My mother is a fish."--Vardaman Bundren
Kgun5
April 3, 2013, 3:45 pm
This is a poker reference, for those who are unaware.
saipanwriter
June 2, 2013, 2:33 am
thanks, kgun5. what is a "fish?" I'm guessing it's not good.
nevadasmith68
June 12, 2013, 2:05 am
There is a fish called a "sucker".

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"I always fear that creation will expire before teatime."
— Sydney Smith

bansaisequoia
September 27, 2011, 10:35 pm
That one always keeps me awake at night, too.

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"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
— Gore Vidal

bansaisequoia
June 7, 2009, 12:46 am
Could we solve your messianic complex if we took your advice?

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"Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. "
— Charles Simmons

bansaisequoia
June 19, 2009, 9:48 pm
Revery? I thought revelry opened a thousand avenues for the entrance of evil.

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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
— Igor Stravinsky

bansaisequoia
July 14, 2009, 11:12 pm
What is ironic about this, is that his most raucous, harsh, dissonant piece of music, "The Rite of Spring," was used during the dinosaur sequence of the 1941 Walt Disney production, "Fantasia." Children and animals, indeed.

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"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. "
— Earl Warren

bansaisequoia
April 27, 2011, 4:52 am
I am frequently pleased by the accomplishments recorded in the New York Times' Tuesday Science Supplement, and by the the accomplishments of persons in the arts and music in other sections of the paper. Alas, only tragic things seem to make the front page.

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"I'm in therapy and sewing is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
March 2, 2012, 4:59 pm
I'm in therapy and needlepoint is cheaper than an acupuncturist.

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"When literature becomes too intellectual it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

bansaisequoia
October 16, 2009, 7:22 pm
Probably not a fan of James Joyce or Thomas Pynchon.

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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak. "
— Socrates

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2009, 8:02 pm
But why did nature give us so many vocal cords?

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"The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting."
— Amanda Cross

bansaisequoia
April 18, 2017, 3:36 pm
The author of the quote is "A man to cross."

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"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine."
— Homer Simpson

bansaisequoia
March 20, 2012, 5:29 pm
You couldn't fool the broad side of a barn. You couldn't fool your way out of a paper bag.

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"What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read."
— Gilbert Chesterton

bansaisequoia
April 22, 2010, 8:40 pm
What if he'd lived to see the Jumbotron in Times Square?