Things that Bansai left for us

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"Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet."
— Welsh Proverb

bansaisequoia
October 3, 2011, 4:19 pm
My bad news comes like a double bill of Michael Flatley's Riverdance and Stomp, with special guests Megatron and the Decepticons.

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"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "
— D.H. Lawrence

#	Player	Date	Solve Time
1.	bansaisequoia	March 12, 2011	10 seconds

mokonabarb
October 5, 2014, 3:27 am
I cant believe 19 seconds isn't enough to be the top time. Bansaisequoia is a genius! Anyhow...how about ...to save the tale from the artist through whom the Muse sang it?

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"An audience can really lift you right up off the stage."
— Don Van Vliet

bansaisequoia
September 6, 2012, 8:11 pm
Did Captain Beefheart invent crowd surfing?(link)

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"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day."
— Stephen Jay Gould

bansaisequoia
September 26, 2010, 2:58 pm
Stephen Jay Gould is so hip, he was on "The Simpsons."

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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret - they mainly make models."
— John von Neumann

bansaisequoia
January 9, 2011, 3:57 am
I had to Google this one. It turns out that Johann von Neumann is another name for Hungarian-born, American mathemetician and economist, John von Neumann, whose birth name was Neumann János Lajos. I was also surprised to find that he never seems to have won the Nobel Prize. (Or can someone call me to account on this?)

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"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
— Marvin Minsky

bansaisequoia
August 10, 2012, 3:48 pm
That's why I read the Kama Sutra! Giggety giggety giggety!
montyb
August 1, 2013, 10:39 pm
You should try the Braille version.

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"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. "
— Sir Walter Scott

montyb
May 10, 2012, 6:27 pm
There was enough snow in northern Indiana this last winter to build a snow bust.
bansaisequoia
October 11, 2012, 7:52 pm
There has been enough 21st Century snow in South Florida to sculpt a void.

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"Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
October 22, 2012, 2:41 pm
That explains all those Gary Larson comics

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"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. "
— Gloria Leonard

bansaisequoia
September 4, 2009, 11:48 pm
Type faster.

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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
— Adam Smith

bansaisequoia
January 8, 2012, 6:36 pm
The Road From the City of Skepticism. Wasn't that a Hope/Crosby film?

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"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
— Clive James

bansaisequoia
October 6, 2009, 11:46 pm
Actually, seeing a crane and wrecking ball functioning properly kind of reminds me how powerful machines are, too.

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"What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. "
— A. W. Tozer

maradnu
March 8, 2009, 1:09 am
No. How you treat other human beings is the most important thing about you.
bansaisequoia
May 22, 2009, 8:44 pm
Well said, maradnu. I only wish I could give YOU ten stars for your statement.

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"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. "
— Lord Byron

bonsaisequoia
July 26, 2009, 7:21 pm
How would he know? He died at age 36.

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"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. "
— Henry James

Altoid701
January 5, 2010, 12:25 pm
rats, bats, cats...
bansaisequoia
March 4, 2012, 2:29 pm
monkeys, donkeys, honkeys...
darkyr
August 29, 2017, 10:41 am
cats and rats and monkeys, oh my!
bansaisequoia
December 2, 2017, 12:54 pm
Bions and ligers and tears, oh my!

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"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."
— Horace

bansaisequoia
August 4, 2009, 11:53 pm
And to some it seems to grant nothing but slavery and bondage for the well-being of the undeserving.