Things that Bansai left for us

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"Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option."
— Peter Parker

bansaisequoia
May 13, 2010, 7:54 pm
This is actually from the 2002 Spider-Man film.

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"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

bansaisequoia
March 6, 2012, 6:31 pm
Michael Flatley thinks he's God.

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"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. "
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

maradnu
March 7, 2009, 11:42 pm
If I can envision flapping my arms and flying, do you think I can do that?
pootie49
June 19, 2009, 4:47 pm
No...but I would pay to watch you try
bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 10:40 pm
I've got a webcam on my notebook. We could post it on Youtube!
bansaisequoia
July 3, 2010, 7:30 pm
If you can envision it, you can lower all the state employees' incomes to minimum wage!
bansaisequoia
January 8, 2012, 10:41 pm
I believe I can be elected Österreichischer Bundespräsident, even though I wasn't born in Austria.
nelnose
April 4, 2016, 9:24 am
His synapsis needs to be updated.
LLapp
August 9, 2018, 9:23 pm
My synapses need to be updated too.

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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
— Nicolas Chamfort

bansaisequoia
May 30, 2012, 8:00 pm
I think people tend to laugh more when they're wasted.

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"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
— Diogenes the Cynic

bonsaisequoia
July 29, 2009, 12:17 am
I am within a cuticle's breadth.

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"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it."
— Jules Renard

bansaisequoia
July 5, 2010, 8:51 pm
I'm not even looking and I find it.

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"Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant."
— Henry M. Wriston

bansaisequoia
July 11, 2009, 2:16 am
Henry Wriston is the former President of my alma mater, Lawrence University. digirl and I went there for my 25th Class Reunion.
bansaisequoia
April 10, 2010, 12:32 am
Henry Wriston was the former president of Lawrence University (Go, Vikes!), who later went on to become the president of Brown University in the Ivy League.

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"We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide."
— Nathan M. Pusey

bansaisequoia
May 2, 2010, 4:32 am
Nathan Pusey was the former President of my school, Lawrence University. He then went on to become President of Harvard.
montyb
June 30, 2013, 11:18 pm
I wonder how many cryptogram ears (besides me) realize that the actor who played Peter Parker's father in the 2012 Spider-Man movie attended the same college, at the same time, as Bansai. The actor's name is Campbell Scott.

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"A room without books is like a body without a soul. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

bansaisequoia
October 22, 2009, 10:42 pm
This really does seem to be a misattribution. Even if any of the media of Ancient Rome might be referred to as a book, how many households of that time would have had a room full of books? I can't find this quote attributed to anyone except Marcus Tullius Cicero, however.

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"People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to."
— Dick Cheney

bansaisequoia
June 15, 2011, 5:49 am
Does this mean he supports same gender marriage?
patsy86
July 9, 2011, 5:15 pm
Yes it does, just as he supports his daughter in her same gender relationship.

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"It's cold out folks. Bone-crushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel."
— Andrew Schneider

Andy451
September 17, 2015, 1:00 pm
A guy who knows a lot more about cold than Andrew Schneider is Jack London. Why does Schneider have more quotes than Jack London? Jack London almost died several times, during his days prospecting for gold in the Yukon Territory in Alaska. He had frost bite several times to his fingers and toes, and I think he also had to have surgery on his nose for frostbite also. He wrote White Fang, Call of the Wild which are arguably the greatest short story and novel ever written about dogs. He also wrote the short story, "To Build a Fire", which is a story in almost every anthology ever written. Why doesn't he have more quotes than Andrew Schneider?
abra
November 2, 2015, 6:19 am
How do you know who has more quotes, Andy? There are a number of Jack London quotes. I don't think that anyone knows the exact quote count of any source. Bansai could probably tell you, the exact amount he's done, and that would get you close, but even he wouldn't know for sure if there was one he hadn't done.
pegxpeg
June 21, 2016, 3:37 pm
Maybe Andy is Bansai.
abra
February 15, 2017, 1:54 pm
I don't think so, bansai is almost always succinct. If he IS Andy, he must have a lot of stuff he's been storing up to comment on.

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"If I love you, what business is it of yours? "
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

bansaisequoia
December 25, 2010, 4:03 am
If you follow the restraining order and don't come within 500 yards of me, we're okay.

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"I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween."
— Anonymous

bansaisequoia
May 29, 2009, 8:46 pm
Hey, I used to live in Key West, but I can't post those photos here!

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"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. "
— J. Paul Getty

bansaisequoia
June 3, 2009, 9:18 pm
If Warren Buffett tore up $15 every second for 100 years straight, he'd still have a few billion left over. Don't believe me? Do the math.
Altoid701
September 29, 2009, 10:09 am
$15/second * 86400 seconds/day * 365 days/year * 100 years = $47,304,000,000 Net worth according to Forbes.com: $62.0 billion Amount left over after ripping up $15 every second for 100 years: $14,696,000,000
Lurker
April 5, 2010, 11:15 pm
I really didn't need to know that. What if he gave everyone in America $500 a month to help with the rent/mortgage?
pootie49
May 8, 2012, 9:37 pm
every month? and for how long? now theres a math calculation for you. wonder if we could include canada in that...pop. 33.5 million give or take. to whoever does that calculation.

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"Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 2, 2012, 2:16 pm
If God is omniscient, can s/he be made brighter?

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"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."
— Homer

bansaisequoia
August 5, 2010, 5:47 pm
"Wide-sounding?"
marnita
October 14, 2017, 4:48 pm
Homeric epithets can be difficult to translate. This one is often rendered "far-thundering."
marnita
March 23, 2018, 10:34 am
In those days, slavery was not based upon race or gender. Anyone who was captured could become a slave.