Things that Bansai left for us

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"Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently."
— John G. Vance

bansaisequoia
April 5, 2010, 11:19 pm
Eh. If you say so.

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"It's awesome. Every day is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books."
— Charlie Sheen

bansaisequoia
May 16, 2011, 3:58 pm
Actually, it looks like Ashton Kutcher is winning.

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"One chops the wood, the other does the grunting. "
— Proverb

punga
April 28, 2009, 7:59 am
??
LiveLoveLaugh
November 7, 2009, 12:39 am
ugh
bansaisequoia
March 13, 2011, 12:13 am
punga just chopped the wood, and LiveLoveLaugh did the grunting.

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"My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot."
— Ashleigh Brilliant

bansaisequoia
April 4, 2012, 11:46 pm
Mine is an epic with a cast of thousands. Admission is free. Or you can sneak in the exit door.

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"Pretentious quotations are the surest road to tedium."
— Henry W. Fowler

momof6
April 19, 2009, 2:35 am
Then how come so many of us are addicted to this site?
kat
July 18, 2009, 6:34 pm
Mom has a point there...
bansaisequoia
September 20, 2009, 8:58 pm
We don't experience tedium because most of these quotes lack pretension. Do you feel quotes by Will Rogers, Bob Dylan or Satchel Paige are full of pretension?
kat
October 11, 2009, 11:11 pm
No..I suppose you're right Bansai. I could cheerfully do without some of Ben Franklin's and H.L. Mencken"s quotes even if I don't consider them pretentious.
bansaisequoia
January 25, 2010, 7:06 pm
And when you consider that Einstein is Einstein, and not the guy who cleans your pool or bags your groceries, his quotes seem pretty unpretentious, too.

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"None loves the messenger who brings bad news. "
— Sophocles

bansaisequoia
April 25, 2011, 8:43 pm
None loves?

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"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe."
— Richard Gere

bansaisequoia
March 2, 2012, 5:51 pm
I'm more of a kudu than a narwhal.

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"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
— George W. Bush

bansaisequoia
May 13, 2010, 5:24 pm
I've repeated this Bushism on this site before, and now Stephen has actually added it to the quotations. Woot! Woot!

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"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
— Johann Kepler

bansaisequoia
January 11, 2011, 10:27 pm
Johannes Kepler.
montyb
December 13, 2013, 2:29 pm
Perhaps not the sharpest criticism there Bansai, but at least it was from an intelligent man.

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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists."
— Jean Rostand

bansaisequoia
July 4, 2009, 8:00 pm
Yeah, I bet you think I'm insincere.

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"Nothing we human beings do is without emotion."
— Pete Townshend

bansaisequoia
September 24, 2012, 1:41 am
Nothing we Vulcans do is with emotion.

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"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks, and it can't fly very high."
— Wilbur Wright

bansaisequoia
July 17, 2010, 6:20 pm
Someone should have told him about mynas, cockatiels, budgerigars and macaws.

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"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."
— Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

bansaisequoia
January 4, 2012, 2:10 pm
I could've solved this crypto faster if it wasn't so lame. And the sun got in my eyes because I was distracted after the dog ate my homework.
universalmom
February 11, 2012, 11:27 pm
16 seconds and he's complaining. Really bansai? Really? lol
montyb
April 5, 2014, 10:01 am
Does this mean that excuses can be constructive?

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"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
— Leslie Caron

kjmcaj
March 4, 2013, 6:35 pm
you don't know white, if you can't see black.
bansaisequoia
January 27, 2017, 11:33 am
I can be red/green color blind and still know purple very well.

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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth."
— Miguel de Cervantes

bansaisequoia
March 19, 2010, 3:01 am
He's got me pegged. I try to combat suicidal depression while exploding with mirth!