Things that Bansai left for us

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"I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it."
— Lesley Boone.

bansaisequoia
April 8, 2010, 8:37 pm
There was a cake in your head?
pootie49
July 11, 2011, 2:23 pm
LOL LOL Bansai.
gryhnd51
August 21, 2011, 3:53 am
AHHH, Joseph K, but you a very witty man!

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"The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. "
— Friedrich Nietzsche

PianoManGidley
March 4, 2009, 3:02 am
But...there have been PLENTY of people named Christian! His statement is false...
bansaisequoia
August 21, 2009, 10:14 pm
There's Christian Slater, Christian Doppler,Johann Christian Bach (no not that one!),Christian Bale...
pootie49
April 1, 2011, 6:14 pm
um and HE wasnt even a Christian, at the time ...

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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty."
— Nelson Rockefeller

bansaisequoia
March 18, 2010, 10:20 pm
Um... isn't poverty a problem with all lower income workers?

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"If life indeed is a stage, then how can we act our parts if we can't read our script?"
— Vu Quyen

bansaisequoia
March 27, 2010, 2:23 am
I don't read a script. Like Indiana Jones, I just make things up as I go along.

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"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
— Sean O'Casey

bansaisequoia
June 9, 2010, 7:13 pm
Unrehearsed? This life is improv.

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"What, will the world be quite overturned when you die? "
— Epictetus

bansaisequoia
July 18, 2009, 11:03 pm
I have a friend who frequently reads books in bars. People sometimes ask why he's reading a book in bar. His reply is, "What, like you're gonna say something more interesting?" That is the tenor of this message.

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"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. "
— Albert Camus

bansaisequoia
July 30, 2010, 12:23 am
I'd rather be a pirate than a nobleman, anyway. And maybe I'd be on the cover of a trashy paperback Romance novel, too.
pootie49
May 29, 2011, 4:19 pm
bansio!

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"We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people."
— Muammar al-Gaddafi

bansaisequoia
January 27, 2012, 3:13 am
(link)

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"Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
February 26, 2011, 12:19 pm
This applies to e-mail, too.
bazinga
October 24, 2012, 8:00 pm
and phishing
skeeter
April 1, 2019, 3:27 pm
I'll mullet over and get back to you.
Jrdad
February 23, 2021, 7:26 pm
Don't be koi...

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"Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize "
— Samuel Johnson

bansaisequoia
August 22, 2012, 9:00 pm
Is Overbear related to Underdog?

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"A kiss is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place."
— Tanielle Naus

bansaisequoia
November 25, 2010, 4:17 am
How bewildering to consider a kiss a transgression.

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"Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it."
— Mark McClinchie

bansaisequoia
June 7, 2010, 8:39 pm
So, is this a user submitted quote from mcclinchy?

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"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? "
— Andy Warhol

bansaisequoia
July 25, 2013, 4:51 pm
Like a series of silk screens of Marilyn Monroe?

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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. "
— Blaise Pascal

Spenser
December 29, 2014, 5:56 am
I have often contemplated doing evil to bansaisequoia,who makes my biggest triumphs look puny, indeed.
LLapp
April 20, 2015, 2:05 pm
Spenser, just to tip you off, he lives in Montana.
Persephone59
June 11, 2017, 6:33 pm
I thought Bansai said he lived in Florida. Did he give up alligators for bears and moose?
maradnu
June 24, 2017, 3:45 pm
Or someone was trying to point spenser in the exact wrong direction
Persephone59
May 6, 2018, 1:00 pm
Anyway, why be envious of someone with an obviously awesome aptitude for typing ridiculously fast and solving cryptos? I think it's cool there's someone like that here, and his comments are pretty amusing.

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"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."
— Herb Cohen

bansaisequoia
May 28, 2010, 11:35 pm
Is this the Herb Cohen who was Frank Zappa's manager?
LLapp
July 17, 2015, 6:42 pm
No, this is Herb Cohen who wrote the bestseller "You Can Negotiate Anything," from which this quote is taken. The quote is a restatement of another one usually attributed to Anais Nin.

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"Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There are no additional rules "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 1, 2012, 6:50 pm
Yeah, right. I bet they have tons of micro-managers running around telling people how to do minutiae all around the workplace, as if they were helpless little children. They then ignore major impediments to progress and productivity.