Things that Bansai left for us

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"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."
— Homer

bansaisequoia
July 6, 2009, 11:20 pm
I wonder what Homer would make of the President and his cabinet, the Supreme Court and the 500+ members of Congress. Not to mention the governments of states, which have their own executive, judicial and legislative branches. And let's not forget the Yoknapatawpha County Dog Catcher. (Sorry if you're from Canada, Australia, the UK and parts elsewhere--didn't mean to seem ethnocentric)

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"I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault."
— Jack Tatum

pootie49
June 10, 2011, 2:42 pm
woo hoo My favourite player of all time. one of the most hardest hitting de's ever to play the game. mean guy on the field.
bansaisequoia
January 25, 2015, 9:49 am
I'm more of an Art Tatum Fan. His hits border on Thelonious Monk Assault.

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"If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?"
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
November 17, 2012, 2:12 am
Only an oxymoron of genius could have uttered this quote. Remember, Unattributed is not a name to forget.

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"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. "
— Arthur Schopenhauer

bansaisequoia
February 29, 2012, 7:34 pm
No, it's simple to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. But, you're right.

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"There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. "
— H.L. Mencken

bansaisequoia
April 22, 2010, 4:45 pm
I've been searching Google Images, but I can't find a photo of a smiling philosopher. Certainly not Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertrand Russell or Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. "
— Mary Flannery O'Connor

bansaisequoia
April 12, 2010, 9:39 pm
Zing! Take that, Danielle Steel and Tom Clancy!

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"Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth. "
— Will Rogers

bansaisequoia
September 27, 2009, 1:30 am
But Superman has been gainfully employed since 1938.
bansaisequoia
June 30, 2010, 5:01 am
I eat heroes. (At Subway and Quizno's)

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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. "
— Oprah Winfrey

bansaisequoia
July 13, 2012, 7:35 pm
Sure. Oprah takes the bus when her limo breaks down. And I have to pilot the space shuttle when the matter/antimatter reintegrator pods have bollixed up the dilithium crystals on my starship.

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"The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
May 25, 2010, 8:04 pm
How about at an airport or a Metallica concert?

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"A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
September 5, 2011, 9:25 pm
How did he hold the pen in his hoof?
montyb
May 24, 2012, 6:04 pm
Bansai, have you never seen Mr. Ed?
bansaisequoia
May 28, 2012, 7:14 pm
Pfft! Horses don't dial the phone either.

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"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. "
— Sigmund Freud

bansaisequoia
March 14, 2010, 8:21 pm
You should see my Venus Flytrap.

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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. "
— Gilbert Chesterton

bansaisequoia
June 26, 2009, 10:05 pm
I cannot love Gandhi's passive, non-violent resisitance (ahimsa) without wanting to fight for it?

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"Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent."
— Frantz Fanon

bonsaisequoia
February 9, 2010, 11:36 pm
It got a new $400,000,000 contract for Rush Limbaugh.

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"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
— Gilbert Chesterton

bansaisequoia
August 27, 2009, 9:15 pm
He never lived to see the "spaghetti" scene in "Lady & The Tramp."

[Toeprint]

"If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now."
— Larry Wright

bansaisequoia
February 13, 2011, 11:22 pm
They haven't had can openers for millennia so that cats could adapt to them.
fredsevent
September 28, 2011, 5:40 am
But they can get their owners to open them. Cats have evolved subtle talents for getting humans to supply them with all their needs. Just think of all the human effort that went into getting that can of food to that cat.
bansaisequoia
October 4, 2012, 10:35 pm
Wow, I guess cats raise their standard of living through subtlety rather than technology. Who, then, is the superior creature?