Things that Bansai left for us

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"All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense. "
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

bansaisequoia
March 22, 2010, 7:21 pm
In 21st Century Florida, we say "horndogs" instead of lechers. Lol!

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"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

bansaisequoia
October 11, 2011, 8:36 pm
The Coneheads are the worst. They consumed mass quantities of fried chicken embryos.

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"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "
— Karl Marx

bonsaisequoia
February 12, 2010, 9:20 pm
If a writer named Vaclav Havel became the first president of the Czech Republic, hasn't he created history?

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"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."
— Sam Walter Foss

bansaisequoia
July 7, 2010, 1:27 am
I live in a house by the side of the road. Don't most people? At least those of us who have a street address.

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"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."
— Dag Hammarskjold

bansaisequoia
September 5, 2009, 8:20 pm
The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjold.
bonszaisequaio
February 23, 2010, 2:06 am
With an umlaut over the "o."

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"You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency."
— Dag Hammarskjold

bansaisequoia
October 1, 2009, 5:38 pm
The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjold. (with an umlaut over the "o")

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"Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done."
— Dag Hammarskjold

bansaisequoia
August 21, 2009, 9:34 pm
The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjöld.
bansaisequoia
November 16, 2009, 7:10 pm
The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjold with an umlaut over the "o."

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"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
— Dag Hammarskjold

bansaisequoia
August 13, 2009, 9:25 pm
The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjöld.
bansaisequoia
September 21, 2009, 12:15 am
Once again without diacritics. Dag Hammarskjold.
bansaisequoia
December 20, 2009, 6:50 pm
With an umlaut over the "o."

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"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to run away."
— Dag Hammarskjold

bansaisequoia
March 3, 2010, 2:00 am
This is first time I've seen Dag Hammarskjold spelled correctly on this site. Except for the umlaut over the "o." (Just kidding, Stephen!)

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"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge - the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."
— Charles Augustus Lindbergh

Altoid701
July 22, 2009, 10:41 pm
Didn't Charles Lindbergh Jr. die at the age of one?
bansaisequoia
October 7, 2009, 1:21 am
Correctamundo. This quote must have been uttered by Senior.

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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it. "
— Henry Ford

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 9:32 pm
Many people don't even realize what a bad side he had to him. (link) https://web.archive.org/web/20090726...chapter_06.htm

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"Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. "
— Novalis

bansaisequoia
October 28, 2009, 5:00 pm
Better an artist than a philosopher.

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"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. "
— John D. Rockefeller

joed
April 30, 2013, 3:29 pm
Heh heh...he said duty...
bansaisequoia
January 8, 2015, 2:01 pm
Get your mind out of the gutter, pottymouth.

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"I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - and found that life was duty."
— Ellen Stugis Hooper

bansaisequoia
September 30, 2012, 5:59 pm
She said life was doody!

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"The shortage of student loans may require divestiture of certain sorts - stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture."
— William John Bennett

bansaisequoia
March 3, 2012, 8:01 pm
Otherwise rich people will be divested of their enhanced home entertainment systems, foreign made luxury cars and three-months-on-the-Cote-d'Azur.

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"Inflation continues until the common man is completely sucked out of money, then recession sets in and continues until he becomes suckable again."
— B. J. Gupta

bansaisequoia
May 4, 2010, 3:48 am
Aw, well this sucks.

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"The President can bomb anybody he likes."
— Richard Milhous Nixon

bansaisequoia
March 1, 2012, 5:01 am
Why would you bomb someone you like?

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"There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly... and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell."
— Richard Milhous Nixon

bansaisequoia
December 11, 2010, 10:29 pm
Actually, you folded like Superman on laundry day.

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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise."
— Richard Milhous Nixon

bansaisequoia
August 8, 2010, 1:31 pm
You certainly were doing more than you were telling us.

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"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body."
— Richard Milhous Nixon

bansaisequoia
January 9, 2011, 5:08 am
So, what exactly did you do on August 10, 1974? (And I'm not even asking what your henchmen did at you behest in 1972)

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"The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number."
— Martin H. Fischer

bansaisequoia
July 22, 2018, 5:09 am
e to the power of π-1 seconds. I imagine it to be so.

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"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. "
— Bob Hope

kat
November 29, 2009, 10:12 pm
So THAT'S what's going on....
bansaisequoia
January 8, 2010, 9:33 pm
Yer too young to be middle aged, girlfriend.

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"Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
— Al Capp

bansaisequoia
July 19, 2009, 10:27 pm
You gotta take his word for it--after all, he drew Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae. (link)
bansaisequoia
October 9, 2010, 12:29 am
One comic artist I know has said that many in his industry are appalled that "serious" artist, Roy Lichtenstein, made millions by ripping off their gig. Observe: (link)