Things that Bansai left for us

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"I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not?"
— Jack Handey

kat
December 6, 2009, 5:27 pm
I liked Jack Handy in "Deep Thoughts' on Saturday Night Live, but that liking does not carry over to his quotes in cryptogram form.
bansaisequoia
March 14, 2010, 1:20 am
Comedy is a medium which loses facets when shown merely in printed word. A great part of comedy deals with form, action, sight, delivery. Obviously, this is why Harpo Marx never had a great career in radio. Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts on Saturday Night Live derived a lot of their humor from the deadpan delivery and timbre of the voice that spoke them.

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"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. "
— Michelangelo

bansaisequoia
June 29, 2010, 7:56 pm
I guess he must have felt ill at ease when he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, then.
Visimore
October 14, 2013, 4:14 am
Bansaisequoia, he did! Michelangelo saw painting as an inferior form of art, and he was basically forced by Pope Julius II to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. It's quite remarkable that someone who hated painting so much and had little experience in the art form completed one of the most magnificent works of painting ever!

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"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. "
— Mark Twain

1.	bonsaisequaio	February 19, 2010	6 seconds
2.	bansaisequoia	September 11, 2012	6 seconds

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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. "
— Plato

bansaisequoia
December 20, 2009, 6:21 pm
He must be talking about Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

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"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "
— Orson Welles

bansaisequoia
March 22, 2010, 12:58 am
I used to work at a microbrewery/restaurant with a guy who had a degree from UC Davis in "fermentation science." He majored in brewing beer.

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"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."
— Eugene V. Debs

bansaisequoia
August 11, 2010, 11:51 pm
Or does it make us go around in circles?

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"Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world."
— T'ien Yiheng

bansaisequoia
May 25, 2013, 1:56 am
The din of inequity.

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"They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. "
— Joseph Joubert

silveryaspen
June 20, 2009, 10:20 pm
referring to leaders ... perhaps?
bansaisequoia
June 20, 2010, 5:39 pm
As per the following webpage, Joubert is referring to maxims. (link)
kb83
August 27, 2018, 7:39 am
thanks bansai long ago.

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"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. "
— George Macdonald

bansaisequoia
August 16, 2009, 12:38 am
Whenever there was a call for help, Shoeshine Boy became in real life---Underdog!

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"The thing to remember is that the future comes one day at a time."
— Dean Acheson

mmfs83
January 5, 2017, 3:12 am
On a previous quote,the last one, someone commented om bansaisequoia's authenticity. I commented that I thought there were three. I just checked the members list, and there are actually 12-13 or so, all with the same type of profile. He/she is obviously very good, and having fun putting us on.
Spellbinder44
November 14, 2017, 10:49 pm
That kind of cloning is sad. BansaiSequoia is such a unique, well- thought -out username . Oxymoron and all.
susanith
November 27, 2017, 6:32 am
Ah, the great are always under attack.
abra
October 27, 2018, 2:55 pm
I don't think anyone has heisted bansai's name except bansai himself. Probably all, but at least most of them are Bansai. Years ago I thought maybe bansaisequoia and bonsaisequoia were an item.

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"The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll."
— George Whelton

Queethebean
August 11, 2012, 7:33 pm
I played the mortal coil in high school marching band.
bansaisequoia
November 2, 2012, 3:25 pm
I played the death toll in the jazz ensemble.

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"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."
— Saint Francis of Assisi

1.

bansaisequoia

July 11, 2011

12 seconds

zengard
May 12, 2021, 2:00 pm
Wow, bansaisequoia's record here has held for just short of 10 years.
Eureka
September 3, 2021, 1:06 pm
It's nice to see such a long record still being held by bansai.

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"I'm not such a dictator that I would shut down Facebook. I'll merely imprison anyone who logs into it."
— Muammar al-Gaddafi

bansaisequoia
April 28, 2012, 7:25 pm
Do dictators refer to themselves as dictators?
bansaisequoia
June 9, 2013, 4:37 am
Maybe this was really said by Mark Zuckerberg.

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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
— Khalil Gibran

bansaisequoia
July 6, 2010, 1:26 am
If Jesus was the son of God, then the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus would be God's Great-Grandfather. You don't have to be a genealogist or a genius to figure this out.

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"I know that you think you know what I said. But I'm not sure whether you understood that what you heard is what I meant."
— Alan Greenspan

sash14
May 27, 2010, 10:08 pm
if 244 seconds is slow, you guys must all be geniuses
bansaisequoia
September 3, 2010, 8:28 pm
Negative. I am a meat popsicle. (Bruce Willis)