Things that Bansai left for us

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"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. "
— George Washington

bansaisequoia
November 25, 2009, 5:22 am
What the $^&# does George Washington know about ?)%$ anyway?
kat
February 8, 2010, 4:16 pm
Goll ding it! I was gonna say the same f*ck*ng thing Bansai!
pootie49
May 14, 2011, 10:26 am
i be foolish and wicked Kat...well f**k that eh?

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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. "
— Daniel Webster

bansaisequoia
May 31, 2009, 12:43 am
It's interesting to note that this is a sentiment also felt by today's anthropologists. When people were hunter/gatherers, they were more or less nomadic and didn't need to put down roots anywhere. But the development of agriculture changed everything. Once the grain was sown, homesteads needed to be put down. You needed to stay where the grain was sown until it could be harvested. This was when humans first formed stable communities.

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"They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
— Benjamin Franklin

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"Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. "
— Charles Dickens

bansaisequoia
July 19, 2009, 10:00 pm
Business has a soul?

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"Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
February 13, 2011, 4:54 am
To attain happiness, I could do without work to do.

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"I take it to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. "
— Terence

pootie49
April 10, 2009, 7:58 pm
Good rule
bansaisequoia
September 6, 2009, 10:20 pm
(link) [Dead link leads to a postcard of Do Re Mi beer posted on a pub's webpage.]

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"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. "
— Edmund Burke

bonsaisekuoia
February 24, 2010, 9:57 pm
I have to feel this is misquoted or misattributed. By dictionary definition, "whence" means "FROM where," not "where." Saying "from whence" is a redundancy. I find it hard to believe that an erudite man of 3 centuries gone by would have made this mistake. (link)
bonsaisekuoia
February 24, 2010, 9:58 pm
I have to feel this is misquoted or misattributed. By dictionary definition, "whence" means "FROM where," not "where." Saying "from whence" is a redundancy. I find it hard to believe that an erudite man of 3 centuries gone by would have made this mistake. (link)

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"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. "
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

bansaisequoia
June 30, 2009, 10:33 pm
I'm not going to go into the ring with Wittgenstein.

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"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
— Jorge Luis Borges

bansaisequoia
January 5, 2011, 9:57 pm
A very profound writer, but I don't think that could be nailed down to a single, epiphanic moment, except by the few. For me, it is an ongoing process.

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"When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue. "
— Don Marquis

bansaisequoia
March 10, 2010, 6:26 pm
Too late. I lost mine years ago.

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"There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
May 19, 2012, 1:18 am
Promisers are pro misers.

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"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic."
— David Russell

bansaisequoia
March 2, 2012, 7:57 pm
That's a step up from a Brobdingnagian world of Kafkaesque circumstances ruled by Orwellian institutions.

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"Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime."
— Paul Williams

universalmom
April 23, 2012, 12:36 am
As a Democrat married to a Republican, I love this one!
bansaisequoia
June 22, 2012, 8:16 pm
You're like James Carville & Mary Matalin!

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"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. "
— Robert South

bansaisequoia
May 26, 2009, 11:05 pm
Can one come to expect the unexpected?

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"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
— Harriet Van Horne

bansaisequoia
June 4, 2010, 1:26 pm
Have you ever cooked with reckless abandon?
mazereeuw
January 10, 2013, 4:34 pm
Give me the careful predetermination of a crockpot any day.
joed
April 22, 2013, 11:05 am
But have you ever cheated on your entree with some cheap side dish?