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  • "I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike are always dominated by fools."
    — Harold Bloom

    bansaisequoia
    November 13, 2009, 6:05 pm
    Spoken by a professor and author.

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    • "Two paradoxes are better than one - they may even suggest a solution."
      — Edward Teller

      bansaisequoia
      June 24, 2009, 9:59 pm
      Would we better off if Edward Teller had been a bank teller? Einstein once remarked that he should have been a plumber.

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      • "Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. "
        — Napoleon Hill

        bansaisequoia
        September 14, 2009, 8:35 pm
        Which is why professional athletes, rock stars and film stars are the pinnacle of honesty and integrity. And don't even get me started on Bernard Madoff and Ivan Boesky.

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        • "Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas."
          — Esa Tikkannen

          bansaisequoia
          August 10, 2012, 3:47 pm
          I tell kids I work with that I can remember when 26 cents was every day low price. They don't believe I'm really that old.

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          • "There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. "
            — Will Rogers

            bansaisequoia
            February 8, 2013, 7:32 pm
            Evidently not a fan of Cocteau or Eisenstein

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            • "Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. "
              — Sir Walter Scott

              bansaisequoia
              November 13, 2009, 11:13 pm
              Escape me never.

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              • "It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. "
                — Proverb

                bansaisequoia
                September 9, 2009, 12:32 am
                How could this be accomplished? (link)

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                • "I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
                  — Elayne Boosler

                  bonsaisequoia
                  July 28, 2009, 12:44 am
                  This comic's name is actually Elayne Boosler.
                  oldmandave
                  January 12, 2011, 12:05 am
                  not fair I got three phones calls and couldn't get back to this one till later..where's the hold button...LOL
                  bansaisequoia
                  March 23, 2012, 2:08 pm
                  If you can't solve the quote before you pick up the phone, you ain't gettin' a record time. You can always tell us you tied the record, and we'd never know the difference.

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                  • "Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees."
                    — J. J. Fumas

                    Lurker
                    June 3, 2010, 1:40 pm
                    What about bansai sequoia trees?
                    LiveLoveLaugh
                    August 19, 2010, 12:32 pm
                    my question exactly?
                    maradnu
                    April 17, 2011, 12:07 am
                    How small of you to ask.
                    chopstix
                    October 21, 2012, 5:53 pm
                    I would've been very surprised if he didn't have the record time on this one.
                    bansaisequoia October 22, 2012 15 seconds
                    gryhnd51
                    August 5, 2013, 5:10 am
                    all these years I've been playing, and I think this is the first time I've gotten this quote! Of COURSE, Bansai has the record! Kudos, Joseph.
                    bansaisequoia
                    January 11, 2017, 12:22 pm
                    Kudus to you, also! (link)
                    Persephone59
                    July 2, 2019, 11:28 pm
                    Abra, I followed the link, and bansai WAS making a reference about kudzu. And kudus (?). We don't have kudzu out here in Oregon. We have Himalayan blackberries instead!!! (Both plants were brought to this country by people who never gave a thought to how they would grow in a warmer, wetter environment). BTW, I never got this quote before, either.
                    Altoid701
                    April 25, 2020, 4:30 pm
                    RIP bansai
                    opallady
                    August 17, 2020, 3:58 pm
                    Alas, the low chemical trick was also played on bansaisequoia. RIP, Joseph.
                    maradnu
                    October 4, 2020, 10:59 pm
                    He was a good person and it sad to have lost him

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                    • "You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive."
                      — Unattributed

                      bansaisequoia
                      February 6, 2012, 7:44 am
                      On the street or on the golf course.

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                      • "Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken."
                        — Robert Brault

                        bansaisequoia
                        June 24, 2012, 9:13 am
                        If the road forks you can't go both ways. Unfortunately, many monetarily successful people seem to believe that because the coin toss came up in their favor, they are wicked brilliant.

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                        • "You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. "
                          — Malcolm X

                          bansaisequoia
                          March 10, 2010, 10:40 pm
                          Ladies, you can be a Freedom Fighter, too!

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                          • "The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at."
                            — Anna Russell

                            bansaisequoia
                            May 22, 2009, 10:40 pm
                            Evidently men love being laughingstocks.
                            pootie49
                            June 7, 2009, 6:36 pm
                            I do not mind be laughed at especially if I were a comic.

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                            • "The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead. " — Jules Renard



                              bansaisequoia
                              September 30, 2009, 2:28 am
                              (link)

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                              • "A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him."
                                — Henry Ward Beecher

                                bansaisequoia
                                May 31, 2011, 5:03 am
                                If Johann Wolfgang von Goethe looks like "Q" from "Star Trek," and if Samuel Johnson looks like a pouting "Penn Gillette," then Henry Ward Beecher looks like a starry-eyed zombie.

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