Things that Bansai left for us

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"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. "
— Aristotle

RedEnoch
May 3, 2013, 3:57 pm
Hope you're happy, Bansai!
dovid1946
February 12, 2015, 11:49 am
I am happy just to be competing with such whizzes

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"The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy."
— Seneca

bansaisequoia
October 26, 2011, 7:45 pm
Only if you take the stairway to heaven instead of the express elevator.

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"It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating."
— Jack Handey

bansaisequoia
May 10, 2010, 2:02 am
Fond memories of lashing people to the mizzen-mast or making them swim with the sharks. Good times.
chriscrojam
December 1, 2010, 11:46 am
I love Jack Handey quotes.
pootie49
May 29, 2011, 4:20 pm
i think he was being facetious.

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"If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles."
— Jack Handey

bansaisequoia
November 29, 2010, 8:30 pm
Scurvy bilge rats who should be lashed to the mizzenmast also make me mad. Yaaarrggh!

[Toeprint]

"The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him. "
— Rumi

bansaisequoia
October 2, 2009, 5:05 pm
(link) [ Note: The original link is dead. Try http://web.archive.org/web/200601291...on/sauron1.jpg ]

[Toeprint]

"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. "
— Anthony Robbins

bansaisequoia
October 24, 2010, 12:05 am
If we can do exactly what we wish, why hasn't one of these millionaire self-help book gurus wished her/himself to be the person who brings about world peace and harmony, ends pollution and global warming, and feed the starving masses? I guess they're more interested in being millionaires.

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"Ultimately, aren't we all just talking monkeys with an attitude problem?"
— Uncle Ben

universalmom
February 8, 2012, 10:30 pm
Who's Uncle Ben?
nelnose
March 18, 2012, 6:11 pm
Peter Parker's uncle.
bansaisequoia
April 14, 2012, 6:51 pm
Or is it the converted rice guy?

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"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
— Harvey Diamond

bansaisequoia
August 11, 2011, 12:56 pm
If it's a baby tiger cub, then I've won a new car.

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"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
— Anna Freud

bansaisequoia
October 8, 2009, 9:43 pm
I survived Conservatory. Some of my buds even went on to the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the London Classical Players.

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"Pardon is the choicest flower of victory. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
November 4, 2009, 7:59 pm
I suppose. If you're walking the Green Mile.
Shirli
November 10, 2017, 1:17 pm
I wish someone could explain how the average time on this cryptogram is 122 and this Bansaisequoia person takes 9 seconds. That is impossible.
tclcac
September 7, 2019, 4:04 pm
Maybe this Bansaisequoia person is a computer whiz and has written a program that can be plugged in to solve it.
oddcouple
June 20, 2020, 5:07 pm
Bansai was a whiz, all right, but the "computer" he plugged in was his own.

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"All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it."
— Lyndon B. Johnson

MarcusAurelius
January 2, 2011, 2:10 pm
Who the hell is Hubert? Sounds like he is learning to be content no matter how meager his situation.
bansaisequoia
March 7, 2011, 1:17 am
Undoubtedly, Hubert H Humphrey.

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"If we don't take care of the customer... somebody else will. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
May 10, 2011, 6:01 am
Maybe we could get Bugsy Siegel to take care of them.... ....yeah, take care of them....

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"All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience. "
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

bansaisequoia
September 17, 2009, 10:41 pm
Since this was said by an Englishman, shouldn't it be "speciality?"

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"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

kat
January 27, 2010, 4:14 pm
No.
bansaisequoia
October 12, 2010, 8:01 pm
Est stulti. Semper enim affirmatio ad feminas. [Translation: It's stupid. Always an affirmation for women.]
universalmom
April 11, 2013, 2:26 am
Minime, fatue. (Ad Spurgeonem loquitur) [Translation: No, you fool. (speaks to Spurgeon)]

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"You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?"
— Bob Moawad

bansaisequoia
December 24, 2009, 6:17 pm
I'm trying to cover my tracks.

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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. "
— Doris Lessing

bansaisequoia
June 12, 2010, 2:39 am
Would you believe she's a Nobel Prize Winner?