Things that Bansai left for us

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"Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility. "
— Wayne Dyer

bansaisequoia
January 5, 2011, 9:46 pm
So, could Forrest Gump become a great cosmologist and astrophysicist? Could Stephen Hawking become a champion ping pong player?

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"I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. "
— Jean Rostand

bansaisequoia
December 7, 2010, 2:23 am
Well, that's good, because then they'd make a life sentence.

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"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions... "
— W. Clement Stone

banszaisequaio
February 22, 2010, 3:22 pm
Why does this end with an ellipsis...?
Quizzical
April 3, 2014, 5:13 am
Because he said it sometime on September 3, 2002 , right before he...

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"My downfall raises me to infinite heights. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

bansaisequoia
March 30, 2012, 8:10 am
My ascent plunges me to abysmal depths.

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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. "
— Plutarch

bansaisequoia
June 9, 2013, 5:24 pm
Who is this Plutarch guy, anyway?

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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. "
— J. August Strindberg

opallady
May 19, 2009, 12:34 am
Eeyore lives.
bansaisequoia
September 10, 2009, 11:05 pm
forever

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"What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it?"
— Jenny DeVries

bansaisequoia
July 6, 2012, 1:54 am
Nun whatsoever.

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"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."
— Marie Curie

bansaisequoia
March 30, 2012, 11:13 pm
Whatever their motives may be, scientists who hunt down errors also bring us closer to truth. Many scientists would welcome close scrutiny of their work, because if no reasonable refutation is found, there is greater support for their theories. If, however, their theory is belied by the findings of others, an advance in science is still made. From wikipedia: "In 1975, cosmologist Stephen Hawking bet fellow cosmologist Kip Thorne a subscription to Penthouse magazine for Thorne against four years of Private Eye for him that Cygnus X-1 would turn out not to be a black hole. It was, so Hawking lost."

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"So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three."
— Alexandre Dumas

bansaisequoia
August 2, 2012, 4:16 am
So if Goethe looks like Q from Star Trek, and Samuel Johnson looks like a grimacing Penn Gillette, then Alexandre Dumas looks like Uncle Fester with hair, after he put a light bulb in his mouth.

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"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. "
— Thomas Edison

bansaisequoia
June 20, 2010, 1:23 am
What if you're worried that your overworked and not drinking enough Whiskey?

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"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."
— Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

bansaisequoia
August 23, 2009, 12:47 am
Which do I like better? Betelgeuse? Or the Crunch Wrap Supreme?
bansaisequoia
February 26, 2011, 8:03 pm
Margeret Jo McCullen: Makes sense. Neat. Teri Rialto: Good times.

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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. "
— Eric Hoffer

bansaisequoia
June 17, 2012, 6:15 pm
That's ridiculous. If I get punched in the stomach, it is my private ail. I am the only person who got the wind knocked out of him. But, it is a matter for public concern and calls for public remedies, because we all deserve to be able to walk down the street without being beaten up and mugged.

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"If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner."
— H.S. Leigh

Synonymous
November 27, 2019, 8:01 pm
RIP bansaisequoia.
lesliecomelastly
August 31, 2021, 10:02 am
Was so sad to learn of bansaisequoia's way too early passing. He was an inspiration to us all, and will be sorely missed.

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"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."
— David Gerrold

bansaisequoia
September 27, 2010, 9:18 pm
Actually, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture has nothing to do with the War of 1812. It's only 1812 Overture, not War of 1812 Overture. This overture concerns the defeat of Napoleon's forces at the Battle of Borodino, which occurred in 1812.

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"If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact."
— Jack Handey

bansaisequoia
July 10, 2010, 5:09 pm
That's true of New York City, too.