Things that Bansai left for us

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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. "
— Rudyard Kipling

bansaisequoia
January 1, 2011, 1:11 am
I guess.

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"I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible. "
— Joseph de Maistre

maradnu
March 5, 2009, 1:31 am
Just because his heart is horrible does not mean that the heart of every 'honest' man is.
bansaisequoia
September 17, 2009, 9:48 pm
What makes you think he views himself as an honest man?
maradnu
July 27, 2011, 1:16 am
If he viewed himself as a rascal, he would know what was in a rascal's heart.

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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
— Ben Franklin

bansaisequoia
September 29, 2009, 4:40 pm
Though I see over a hundred websites attributing this to Ben Franklin, I have to feel this is a misattribution. It seems too simply worded to be the work of Benny the Frank, plus, as galpin points out, "the pursuit of happiness" comes from the Declaration of Independence. I think it's something that spread like wildfire, like the Maurice Jarre quote hoax. Several newspapers around the world printed the quote, but Wikipedia was the first to pick up on its invalidity. (link)
pootie49
July 3, 2011, 12:15 pm
Maybe it was an off hand comment, Bansai. Or all the eth's were removed? It does seem somewhat pedestrian for a bf quote though.

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"We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make fourteen million or fifteen million. You just don't see us."
— Michael Kamen

bansaisequoia
September 17, 2010, 3:38 pm
He wrote the scores to "Mr Holland's Opus" and "X-Men."

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"You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you."
— Dylan Thomas

bansaisequoia
October 30, 2012, 4:13 pm
Wow. He's really confused about my gender. Come to think of it, he's never kissed me.

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"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence."
— Art Linkletter

bansaisequoia
June 22, 2010, 4:05 pm
We go from adolescence to obsolescence? Speak for yourself, Linkletter.

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"I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps."
— Benito Perez Galdos

bansaisequoia
January 8, 2010, 6:53 pm
But you're only six feet under.

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"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

bansaisequoia
November 6, 2009, 8:29 pm
Too many want their dreams to be profits.

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"Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?"
— Martin H. Fischer

gryhnd51
November 2, 2011, 11:58 pm
A spirochete is what causes syphillis, as opposed to the "strep" bacteria
gryhnd51
January 5, 2012, 4:24 am
So what Mr Fischer is saying is that there is no difference between dying of syphillis or dying of a strep throat. Quite obviously, there IS a moral distinction.
bansaisequoia
April 2, 2012, 7:19 pm
If a pure man dies by the spirochete he acquired from his unfaithful wife, and a libertine dies by the streptococcus contracted during a bacchanal that would shame Nero, is there a moral grey area?

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"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."
— Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2010, 4:04 pm
Hmmm... I still read comic books.
universalmom
February 25, 2012, 2:20 am
I love roller coasters and water slides!
montyb
May 12, 2012, 8:18 pm
I get on the floor and wreslte with my dog.
SippyGurl
June 2, 2014, 5:28 am
my teddy bear is sitting in the living room
marnita
June 25, 2015, 7:12 pm
I have a whole shelf of stuffed animals.
Lurker
August 9, 2015, 1:31 pm
I have a giant box of Legos and a working Atari.
LLapp
November 5, 2015, 12:33 pm
I have a bowl of finger puppets in the living room and a cow clock on the wall. (HA -- when the quote is about God or economics or government, you can see the dividing line run down the comments thread. But give us a quote about toys and we are one people.)
iltquilt
December 17, 2015, 1:25 pm
I still love to color.
momof7
January 25, 2017, 3:51 pm
I love children's books.
darkyr
August 27, 2017, 3:35 am
I make a point of running through the sprinklers each year.
kahvecowgirl
March 15, 2018, 10:04 am
It took me years to realize how immature the desire to be the smartest person in the room actually is. And I have a stuffed neuron on my bookshelf.
LLapp
September 2, 2018, 2:57 pm
A stuffed neuron? Does it have a name?
imported_phthelen
January 3, 2020, 3:21 am
I still can't resist making snow angels in the first snowfall; 'cept now i need help getting up.
Jrdad
April 21, 2021, 8:59 pm
I love the picture of Einstein sticking out his tongue at reporters

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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. "
— Alfred North Whitehead

kat
June 15, 2009, 3:28 pm
Related Words for : tranquility placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquillity (I've always spelled it with one "l"
bansaisequoia
August 22, 2009, 2:02 am
(link)
pootie49
June 9, 2011, 1:27 pm
me too Kat.

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"The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. "
— Sydney Smith

roxette
September 24, 2009, 7:22 am
whoever made this cryptograms site. I thank you for it! i love you!
bansaisequoia
October 22, 2009, 3:45 pm
Stephen made it. Do you truly love him?
slow1
March 26, 2014, 5:21 am
Stephen who?
wvwoman
May 5, 2014, 3:20 am
stephen the puzzle baron!
marnita
September 6, 2015, 1:38 pm
We all love the Puzzle Baron. He has enriched our lives.

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"Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
February 26, 2012, 7:16 pm
Of course, that ranks them with exterminators and pool boys.
skeeter
June 30, 2015, 12:50 am
I remember when elementary school teachers used to make home visits. My mother was furious when the end-of-year report card arrived, and the home visit notes at the bottom said, "The mother shows little interest in this child."
franny+zooey
July 18, 2021, 10:24 am
Daughter of a firefighter here. Proud of my dad.

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"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms."
— Alan Coren

bansaisequoia
November 8, 2009, 5:52 pm
I have a television I bought for $60US, brand new in the box. If it were legal, I don't think I could afford to buy people to stand in the corners of my rooms.
bansaisequoia
July 10, 2012, 4:25 am
Update from my post of 3 years ago: I now have a 37 inch (93 cm) TV monitor I bought for $179US. This is just $26US more than a bottle of 30 pills I bought from the pharmacy this month. Capitalism without universal health care rules!

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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. "
— Khalil Gibran

bansaisequoia
April 23, 2010, 8:18 pm
Sounds like the voice-over intro to a soap opera.