Things that Bansai left for us

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"Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year."
— Sparky Anderson

Queethebean
March 10, 2013, 7:25 pm
I wish my name was "Sparky".
bansaisequoia
August 4, 2013, 6:48 pm
I wish my name was Todd Blankenship.

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"A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage. "
— Sydney Smith

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impededredwood

October 19, 2008

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"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
— Charles F. Kettering

bansaisequoia
February 8, 2012, 3:52 pm
kewl! As an inventor, if I have a 0.1% average, I'm in the Zone!

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"Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rhythm-bound in poets' minds, defying time and age."
— Dave Beard

[Note: There was an error in the original quote which has seen been rectified.]

bansaisequoia
January 11, 2012, 2:54 am
rhythm-bound
universalmom
May 26, 2013, 2:11 am
Really! Is rythym (I can't even type that) an error or an archaic spelling?

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"It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes, because then your mistakes seem worthwhile."
— Garry Marshall

bansaisequoia
July 22, 2012, 4:45 pm
You mean like Fonzie jumping the shark?

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"It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet."
— Damon Runyon

tabbyclaw
June 5, 2011, 3:57 am
There's an extra 'not' in here.
matarisa
September 29, 2011, 12:09 am
No, it needs to be there.
gryhnd51
January 7, 2012, 3:08 am
the original quote is from Ecclesiastes..to wit: "the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,etc" Mr Runyon is negating or denying the original quote, so there DOES need to be 2 "nots" in this quote.
montyb
July 7, 2012, 1:12 pm
Two "nots" make a "got"?
bansaisequoia
September 19, 2012, 2:04 pm
Actually, two knots make about 2.34 miles per hour on the water.

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"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. "
— Lao Tzu

kat
July 4, 2009, 5:43 pm
Like kittens?
bansaisequoia
August 31, 2009, 11:06 pm
Couldn't've said it better.

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"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. "
— Juvenal

momof6
March 1, 2009, 5:33 am
tuition can be steep
bansaisequoia
October 11, 2009, 1:08 am
College Tuition 2007-2008 1. George Washington 2. Bucknell 3. University of Richmond 4. Colgate 5. Sarah Lawrence College 6. Tulane 7. Wesleyan University 8. Hamilton College 9. Bowdoin College 10. Carnegie Mellon 11. Penn 12. Johns Hopkins 13. Bennington College 14. Tufts University 15. Brown 16. Vassar College 17. NYU 18. USC 19. Notre Dame 20. Dartmouth 1.$39,210 2.$37,934 3.$37,610 4.$37,405 5.$37,230 6.$36,610 7.$36,536 8.$36,500 9.$36,370 10.$35,984 11.$35,916 12.$35,900 13.$35,850 14.$35,842 15.$35,584 16.$35,570 17.$35,283 18.$35,212 19.$35,190 20.$35,178

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"Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly."
— H.L. Mencken

maradnu
May 18, 2009, 1:27 am
Mencken had no problems - there was no one inferior to him.
bansaisequoia
August 21, 2009, 7:04 pm
Not even Jack Handey?

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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "
— Andy Warhol

bansaisequoia
August 9, 2009, 12:00 am
This seems antithetical to the notion that a nation needs a Ministry of Culture or a National Endowment for the Arts to promote its aesthetic values. I'd have to Google it, but I hope he never received a grant from either sort of institution. (Of course, were he alive today, Warhol might view me as plebeian who didn't understand his deep, underlying meaning.)
bansaisequoia
May 24, 2013, 3:45 pm
This quote is by Windy Airhole.

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"The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language."
— J. Michael Straczynski

bonsaisequoia
July 31, 2009, 6:41 pm
This quote comes to you from a guy who writes comic books!

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"It is better to succeed with success than failure. "
— George W. Bush

bansaisequoia
May 21, 2012, 7:08 pm
Mission accomplished!

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"It's only during an eclipse that the Man in the Moon has a place in the sun. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 31, 2012, 7:23 pm
Doesn't this quote seem particularly dumb, since there is one side of the moon which is always bathed in sunlight, EXCEPT during an eclipse??? I give it ten stars for possible errors, but spelling and grammar are just fine. Maybe unattributed is really Fox News Fact Checker.
montyb
January 14, 2013, 10:15 pm
Actually, the moon does rotate on its own axis giving both sides the same day/night phenomenon as Earth. Its diurnal cycle is approximately one month which is the same as its orbital cycle around the Earth. When combined the result is only one side of the moon faces Earth, yet both sides get direct sunlight for two weeks each month.
WRQ9
November 11, 2013, 9:17 am
That is one of the most intriguing astrological facts I have ever known. Such precision must indicate a common motive source. Actual synchronization, over millenia!
montyb
September 15, 2014, 2:47 pm
It is the result of tidal forces (differential gravitational pulls on different parts of the moon) which stretch the moon slightly and cause a differential placement between the moon's center of mass and its center of gravity. The result is a torque that has locked the moon into its orbital period matching its rotational period. Eventually, the earth will become tidally locked on the moon (should the sun last that long.

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"A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep? "
— Unattributed

opallady
April 9, 2009, 2:50 am
Great straight-line, but I'll try to behave and leave it alone.
maradnu
June 21, 2009, 1:20 am
Age of consent, dear. Age of consent.
pootie49
January 11, 2010, 2:44 pm
Dang it, this is a family site...too bad.
bansaisequoia
November 24, 2010, 5:25 am
Unattributed is a person for all ages.

[Toeprint]

"Our determination to imitate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters."
— Desiderius Erasmus

bansaisequoia
September 9, 2009, 10:15 pm
Okay. So maybe I'll change some water into wine and go hang with Mary Magdalene. Just doing my part.