Things that Bansai left for us

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"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. "
— Octavio Paz

bansaisequoia
March 20, 2011, 8:19 pm
And, I'm betting this quote was originally said in Spanish. I wonder what the Spanish word for "fixity" is?
LiveLoveLaugh
May 14, 2011, 7:25 am
fijeza

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"That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."
— Douglas Adams

tangerine
August 17, 2011, 5:27 pm
A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The ship had not previously detected this because the meteorite had neatly knocked out that part of the ship's processing equipment which was supposed to detect if the ship had been hit by a meteorite. a line i love! from douglas adams' Mostly Harmless
bansaisequoia
March 1, 2012, 6:32 pm
Was the meteorite found to be mostly harmless?

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"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. "
— Denis Waitley

bansaisequoia
August 13, 2009, 11:12 pm
If my belief is most sincere, the Great Pumpkin will rise up out of my pumpkin patch and deliver toys to all the good boys and girls of the world.

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"Artificial Intelligence - the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies."
— Bill Bulko

bansaisequoia
November 2, 2009, 2:44 am
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
montyb
April 19, 2012, 3:24 pm
HAL: I'm afraid I can't do that, Bansai.
LLapp
December 9, 2016, 9:51 pm
I hope bansais is okay.
bansaisequoia
December 18, 2016, 10:17 am
Shallow Hal.

[Toeprint]

"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."
— Gertrude Stein

maradnu
April 12, 2009, 12:59 am
Is that your final answer?
kat
July 18, 2009, 6:48 pm
The answer is 42. But what is the question?
bansaisequoia
August 21, 2009, 5:56 pm
The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, And Everything.

[Toeprint]

"Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions."
— D.H. Lawrence

bansaisequoia
September 11, 2012, 3:29 pm
Every Goodfella has a mob self.

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"Curses are like chickens, they always come home. "
— Proverb

Barnabas
August 31, 2010, 2:38 am
Why did the curse cross the road?
pootie49
June 11, 2011, 2:18 pm
to go home?
bansaisequoia
August 28, 2011, 9:05 pm
It was stapled to the chicken?

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"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. "
— Albert Camus

bansaisequoia
August 29, 2009, 12:12 am
Evidently, he doesn't believe in reincarnation.

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"Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic."
— E.A. Storrs

bansaisequoia
October 1, 2012, 7:06 pm
Climatic. Pfft!! Everyone knows global patriotism is a myth.

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"What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors."
— Robert Brault

bansaisequoia
March 23, 2012, 2:38 pm
And I thought it was the enchiladas with habanero sauce.

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"No one should do a job he can do in his sleep."
— Cory Doctorow

montyb
July 22, 2014, 6:53 am
Even a mattress tester?
bansaisequoia
October 2, 2014, 2:20 pm
What about a college student who makes extra money being a test subject for REM research? If the President's always on the job, isn't he on the job in his sleep? What about firemen who respond to alarms, don their gear in 60 seconds, and rush to extinguish a blaze? Are they on the job?

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"I'm just an average guy. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson either."
— Mike Tyson

bansaisequoia
August 9, 2010, 9:03 pm
That's certainly a letter of recommendation. I'm better than Charles Manson.
bansaisequoia
April 5, 2011, 4:12 am
I'd feel better about a guy who says, "I'm not Gautama Siddhartha, but I'm not Mahatma Gandhi either."
Newbe Here
December 15, 2020, 1:11 pm
I'm not bansaisequoia, but i'm not the bottom of the totem pole either.

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"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. "
— Seneca

bansaisequoia
June 9, 2009, 12:37 am
Then kat has seen hundreds submit to her asylum.
kat
September 3, 2009, 3:47 pm
Heck, I've committed myself a few times!
kat
March 4, 2010, 4:34 pm
It's good to be committed...*wink

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"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. "
— George E. Woodberry

bansaisequoia
May 23, 2009, 5:15 pm
Unfortunately, those who have failed to solve this crypto will not be enlightened by this sage aphorism.

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"I will not criticize another until I have walked a mile in his moccasins."
— Native American Proverb

maradnu
May 14, 2009, 1:36 am
Because then I'll be a mile away, and I'll have his shoes.
bansaisequoia
July 10, 2009, 11:46 pm
Did you steal that line from Jack Handey?
pootie49
April 15, 2011, 3:25 am
right maradnu, and then you have to yell real loudly for him to hear you and by that time, well whats the point, cept you have a new pair of shoes. or moccasins..which by the way are so comfortable..you could eas....er what was i saying?

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"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins."
— Native American Proverb

maradnu
April 4, 2009, 12:58 am
Because then you have his shoes and you're a mile away.
bansaisequoia
August 26, 2009, 11:03 pm
That sounds just like something Jack Handey would say.

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"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."
— Emo Philips

bansaisequoia
September 10, 2009, 9:44 pm
Yeah, that line kinda reminds me of Jack Handey.

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"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you."
— Anita Roddick

bansaisequoia
October 6, 2009, 9:18 pm
That sounds like something Jack Handey would say!

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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. "
— Mark Twain

bansaisequoia
March 7, 2010, 7:38 pm
He must have been the Jack Handey of the 19th Century.