Things that Bansai left for us

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"The great artist is a slave to his ideals. "
— Christian Nestell Bovee

4.

bansaisequoia

September 7, 2011

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montyb
April 29, 2015, 9:08 am
Wow! Tied my PR and was still 2.5 times Bansai's record. That man is phenomenal.
LLapp
March 25, 2019, 2:47 pm
Hey all you folks who insist there must be cheating, take a look at that Top Solvers box! I solved this one in 8 seconds, and I'm not even in the top five! IT CAN BE DONE. Practice, practice, practice. Never mind your job and your household bills.

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"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. "
— David Viscott

[unknown comment]
bansaisequoia
May 21, 2009, 11:35 pm
There is an error in your comment. You should have said "If there is an error in your solution, you cannot get to this frame." If I had a correct solution to an erroneous quote, I could have gotten here.
universalmom
June 4, 2012, 12:21 am
Maybe because an error in the quote makes it hard to solve?

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"Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
January 25, 2010, 7:22 pm
Ben Stiller was really taxed in "There's Something About Mary."

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"Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. "
— William Pitt

bansaisequoia
August 22, 2009, 12:12 am
I wonder if they would have put you in the stocks back then for saying "damned." In this context, he's just using it as a curse. He's not speaking of being condemned to hell.

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"Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once."
— Isaac Asimov

bansaisequoia
July 11, 2013, 5:28 pm
I would join in, well, maybe once.

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"Necessity is the mother of all invention."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
March 13, 2011, 3:20 am
Nonsense. Just ask Steve Jobs about all the gadgets that have been created by his corporation that won't even process food. And even within that realm, Cro-Magnon man made it through without the George Foreman Grill, the Kitchen Magician, or Popeil's Pocket Fisherman.

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"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
— Vincent Canby

LiveLoveLaugh
April 30, 2010, 11:12 pm
but didn't they change the academy awards to March?
bansaisequoia
May 25, 2010, 4:23 pm
Maybe he means the Earth Day coverage on Animal Planet.

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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. "
— Christian Nestell Bovee

bansaisequoia
March 16, 2010, 11:01 pm
How do we know this isn't a delusion of yours?

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"There is no such thing as a solitary Christian."
— John Wesley

bansaisequoia
September 12, 2010, 2:36 am
Then why did they cloister monks in Medieval times? (And, actually, this practice continues in the 21st Century)

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"It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears."
— Rod Serling

bansaisequoia
January 25, 2011, 7:14 pm
A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead. You're in the Zone.

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"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. "
— Zig Ziglar

bansaisequoia
October 16, 2012, 2:54 pm
Robert Duvall said, "That smell--that gasoline smell--it smells like victory."

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"In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. "
— Edmund Burke

bansaisequoia
January 15, 2011, 2:00 pm
The Gallos I see are Ernest and Julio.

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"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
— David Ben-Gurion

bansaisequoia
August 20, 2009, 12:46 am
I believe in miracles, you sexy thing.

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"You are not an artist - an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate."
— Eric Pio

kat
January 13, 2010, 4:20 pm
I wonder who he was talking to...
bansaisequoia
July 16, 2010, 7:20 pm
Ergo, Enrico Caruso was not artistic. He didn't write the operas he sang.
pootie49
May 20, 2011, 6:55 pm
probably himself Kat.

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"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
— Clarence Thomas

bansaisequoia
September 20, 2009, 7:42 pm
Specious rhetoric. Groups are comprised of individuals.