Things that Bansai left for us

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"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyer's document, it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age."
— Nadia Boulanger

bansaisequoia
August 15, 2010, 11:36 pm
This quote was actually said by Woodrow Wilson. I found it hard to believe that this would be said by a French musicologist, so I searched to find the real author. Follow this URL: (link)

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"Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians."
— Franklin P. Jones

bansaisequoia
December 20, 2009, 2:43 pm
From Herodotus to Howard Zinn.

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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
— Abraham Maslow

[Note: Top comment is missing.]
bansaisequoia
August 13, 2009, 11:08 pm
By going slower than someone who solves it in 13 seconds.
pootie49
July 5, 2011, 4:59 pm
same way you get to carnegie hall...practice practice practice.
Lurker
June 6, 2012, 11:43 pm
By seeing this quote enough times that you know it after the first few letters and can solve it in 11 seconds.
LLapp
July 15, 2019, 3:19 am
And for the final Jeopardy, the question was: "How can anyone solve this quote in 11 seconds??!?!?!" (Right?)
abra
September 24, 2021, 2:10 am
Right, LLapp, but I guess it disappeared. Or maybe it wasn't worded in the form of a friendly question.

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"When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind - the highest End."
— Maitrayaniya Upanishad

bansaisequoia
May 27, 2013, 10:25 pm
Spelling Error: Upanishad [Note: There was an error in the original quote that has since been fixed.]

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"Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
August 6, 2009, 2:11 am
Hah, hah, hah! I find this very disquieting.

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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
— Mark Twain

bansaisequoia
July 3, 2013, 5:21 pm
My Aunt Polly wants me to whitewash this fence a partic'lar way.

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"There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery."
— Dante Alighieri

banzaisequoia
January 30, 2010, 12:29 am
This was said by Francesca da Rimini in The Divine Comedy.

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"Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. "
— Horace

bansaisequoia
October 24, 2009, 11:40 pm
Yeah, but you'll be overjoyed when you find out you're wrong.

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"The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God. "
— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

bansaisequoia
January 10, 2012, 7:21 pm
If bread is also the staff of life, will it ever rain mantram from the heavens?

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"Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. "
— Thomas Carlyle

bonsaisekuoia
February 25, 2010, 2:51 pm
Ah, quit preaching to me.

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"The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people."
— Donald N. Smith

bansaisequoia
August 23, 2010, 4:05 pm
Garnishment? Do the burgers owe back taxes?

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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
— Bertrand Russell

bansaisequoia
January 17, 2012, 8:05 pm
A rational creature which rationalizes its vagaries and whims.

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"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. "
— Jawaharlal Nehru

bansaisequoia
October 19, 2010, 9:25 pm
But you will still be beat by an unworthy person who lucked out and was dealt a straight flush.

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"I weep when I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to. You can't deny, such is the penalty of marriage. "
— Queen Victoria

bansaisequoia
March 24, 2011, 4:35 am
A young married man doomed to such a state is obviously free and happy-go-lucky. Obviously, women never cheat in marriage, and men should feel they are so blessed to be in such a union.

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"Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar."
— Isaac Goldberg

bansaisequoia
August 25, 2013, 4:06 am
Elementary school taught me about elements. I won't get into what high school taught me.