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"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? "
— Patrick Henry
bansaisequoia January 22, 2011, 3:01 am
That's easy to say when you lived in a world without even semi-automatic firearms. The Second Amendment (which, incidentally, was part of the Bill of Rights of 1791, and not at all part of the original Constitution of 1789) was written at a time when people could not have conceived that within 150 years there would be weapons of mass destruction. Does the "right to keep and bear arms" include the right to have nuclear arms? I don't think I'd want that Virginia Polytechnic guy to be able to keep nuclear arms in his dorm room. The Bill of Rights contained 10 "amendments," or "corrections" to the Constitution. If, within 2 years of the adoption of the Constitution, the Founding Fathers felt that there should be ten corrections made to the original document, I wonder how many changes they might feel should be made over 200 years later.
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
bansaisequoia July 5, 2012, 8:24 pm
It's the maxim of the capitalists when deciding how much to pay their employees, completely forgotten when divvying up their own share.
"Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment."
— George W. Bush
bansaisequoia June 10, 2013, 10:44 pm
What missiles was he trying to stop? Those Scud missiles from the Gulf War that couldn't even hit anything in the Middle East? As though they were going to fly across an ocean.
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost. "
— Leo Tolstoy
bansaisequoia April 20, 2010, 4:45 pm
Doesn't this sound more like something a basketball coach would say? montyb July 26, 2012, 12:53 pm
I'm not certain. As Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, "Just wait 'til next year." Queethebean August 2, 2012, 8:20 pm
But as Chekhov always said, "it ain't over til its over". bansaisequoia July 12, 2013, 5:30 am
Or, as Yogi Berra said, "If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."
"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. "
— Orson Welles
bansaisequoia February 18, 2011, 4:35 am
If he saw "A Charlie Brown Christmas," it would really drive him nuts (pun intended), because then there would be "Peanuts" on television.
"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
— Arthur C. Clarke
bansaisequoia August 5, 2009, 1:30 am
Stephen, this is one of the most insipid quotes you could have chosen from a man of great genius. gryhnd51 July 3, 2012, 4:21 am
I certainly agree with Ban's opinion. Allen June 2, 2014, 1:04 pm
That's right, Arthur C Clarke isn't supposed to be a human sort of person with human sorts of observations. And humor. tfw January 7, 2016, 4:23 pm
Insipid? He was a science fiction author talking about fiction and anti-gravity devices. However, having something nearby to lift yourself up a little works better and doesn't leave a telltale maladjusted dial. tgreen517 October 16, 2016, 3:44 pm
Who is Stephen? Does he pick the quotes? puzzleme March 8, 2017, 2:57 pm
Stephen is bansai's imaginary friend.
"Don't dwell on reality - it will only keep you from greatness."
— Rev. Randall R. McBride
bansaisequoia August 5, 2012, 6:34 pm
My guest cottage is on reality. But the estate proper has its foundations in the Purple Haze of Middle Earth over the Rainbow.
"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "
— D.H. Lawrence
bansaisequoia October 16, 2012, 2:58 pm
Hey, D.H., let's take a look in the old pic-a-nic basket.
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. "
— Benjamin Disraeli
bansaisequoia March 25, 2009, 12:14 am
This is a very vague quote from a semantic standpoint. If we were to give exacting definitions, how does "public opinion" differ from "public sentiment?" universalmom February 10, 2013, 1:33 am
I think he meant "opinion" as a more cerebral thing. maradnu September 13, 2013, 7:05 am
Opinion might be based on ideas, where sentiment is based on emotion. kb83 February 2, 2018, 2:25 am
Well, "the public" can not have an opinion. Perhaps there can be public sentiment, i.e. a trending feeling.
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