Things that Bansai left for us

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"It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers."
— John P. Loughrane

jason jiujitsu
September 17, 2014, 4:02 am
But bansaisequoia obviously does.
LLapp
August 8, 2015, 4:18 pm
No, bansais goes for speed at the price of an imperfect solve rate. Nanrich, however....

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"Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury."
— Steve Pershing

bansaisequoia
June 10, 2010, 8:43 pm
And they would be dismissed because they know you.

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"I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show."
— Glenn Beck

bansaisequoia
February 8, 2012, 4:17 pm
I thought he already was right-wing.

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"On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town."
— Gene Perret

bansaisequoia
July 10, 2012, 7:59 am
Wait. Jeebus already had kids on the 7th day?
jval
April 26, 2015, 10:46 am
Different Son.
marnita
June 10, 2015, 3:47 pm
Maybe a daughter?
darkyr
January 17, 2017, 5:51 am
There was a town?
montyb
April 14, 2019, 7:21 pm
Yes, there was a town. I believe it was just east of Eden.

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"Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?"
— Steve Polyak

bansaisequoia
August 5, 2012, 5:59 am
Would an artificial intelligence be able to solve all the problems created by natural stupidity?

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"The smallest annoyances disturb us the most. "
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

bansaisequoia
January 28, 2010, 1:33 am
Superluous comma?
Moo
December 1, 2011, 5:21 pm
Superfluous even! (Wink)
echo
May 23, 2014, 7:46 am
I think he was too disturbed by the small annoyance to notice the typo :-)

[Toeprint]

"Watergate is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part."
— Gerald R. Ford

bansaisequoia
March 25, 2010, 9:49 pm
I was in sixth grade. I cannot be held culpable. "I am not a crook." (Nixon uttered these words on my 12th birthday.)

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"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got."
— Richard Milhous Nixon


bansaisequoia
August 22, 2010, 4:00 am
Nixon said this on my birthday in 1973.

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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. "
— Samuel Johnson

bansaisequoia
March 13, 2009, 12:43 am
If Samuel Johnson had such an opinion of the free interchange of thought in the 18th Century, I wonder how he might feel about the World Wide Web here in the 21st Century.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed - there is no winter and no night... all tragedies, all ennuis vanish... all duties, even."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

bansaisequoia
June 26, 2010, 3:51 pm
Vanish, not vanis. [Note: Stephen subsequently corrected the error.]

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"Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth."
— Ambrose Bierce

bansaisequoia
September 11, 2012, 9:39 pm
Whodunit? Who killed the spaghetti? Was it the upstairs marinade or the downstairs butter??? Or the crooked pun-in-law?

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"I'm not a particularly verbose person. I think that's why I like taking pictures... they speak for themselves."
— Jeb Dickerson

bansaisequoia
November 24, 2012, 11:30 pm
He's a blogger who's not particularly verbose.

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"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"
— Bertolt Brecht

bansaisequoia
March 15, 2010, 10:31 pm
He wrote the lyrics to "The Alabama Song." ♫ Oh, show us the way ♪ to the next whiskey bar ♫

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"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."
— Alexander Woollcott

bansaisequoia
October 3, 2012, 7:46 pm
Not even the day you first saw "The Adventures of Pluto Nash?"

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"Nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good."
— Imgard Schloegl

bansaisequoia
June 9, 2009, 9:49 pm
The author of this quote is Irmgard Schloegl aka Myokyo-ni. (link)

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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

bansaisequoia
February 28, 2009, 12:37 am
When I was a young man in college, someone in my dormitory had a poster of Einstein on their door which featured this quote. I think it's one of the greatest things ever uttered. One need only look at the opposition encountered by Galileo and Tycho Brahe in the Renaissance to realize the relevance of this. I only wish there more quotes on this site by the aforementioned. I'm also hoping for more quotes by the great geniuses of our times, including Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking and Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, to name a few.