Things that Bansai left for us

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"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. "
— Orson Welles


bansaisequoia
June 27, 2009, 10:54 pm
Well, tell that to Industrial Light & Magic. (link) [Note: The site is no longer available.]
contessawin22
February 26, 2021, 10:47 pm
I clicked on the link. All of the info was very current. The content must have been totally different when bansai posted his comment.

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"It is a commonplace that the history of civilization is largely the history of weapons."
— George Orwell

bansaisequoia
September 6, 2009, 10:59 pm
The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age...
bansaisequoia
January 22, 2011, 1:56 pm
And we won't even mention the Atomic Age.
abra
April 16, 2012, 10:58 pm
I don't think I've seen "commonplace" used this way before.
bansaisequoia
September 23, 2012, 4:43 am
The dictionary lists commonplace as both adjective and noun. Works for me. (link)

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"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
— Freeman John Dyson

bansaisequoia
June 13, 2009, 11:45 pm
It's good to see a quote by this visionary on this site. We need to see more quotes by scientists. Why hasn't Stephen Hawking been included?

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"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission."
— Robert Burns

bansaisequoia
May 4, 2010, 2:43 am
If this isn't a misattribution, it still seems highly unlikely that this was uttered by the Scottish bard of "Auld Lang Syne" fame. Is there another Robert Burns?

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"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. "
— Cato the Elder

bansaisequoia
August 18, 2009, 9:45 pm
I just want to cremated. I've urned it.
bansaisequoia
May 12, 2010, 12:25 am
I just want to be cremated. I've urned it.

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"One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. "
— Johann Friedrich von Schiller

bansaisequoia
May 23, 2009, 12:47 am
This is the man who wrote the text to Beethoven's Ninth-- the "Ode to Joy."

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"If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life."
— Jack Handey

bansaisequoia
September 11, 2009, 1:07 am
The Murder of Gonzago?

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"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. "
— Blaise Pascal

bansaisequoia
December 3, 2009, 5:36 am
"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."--Hubert H Humphrey

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"We are the people our parents warned us about. "
— Unattributed

maradnu
March 28, 2009, 1:29 am
I always liked Walt Kelly's "We have met the enemy and he is us."
bansaisequoia
July 15, 2009, 10:18 pm
Walt Kelly allegedly wrote that to satirize a guy who came from my hometown in Wisconsin, Senator Tailgunner Joe McCarthy. (link)
bansaisequoia
September 15, 2010, 6:54 pm
Good thing Walt wasn't blacklisted.

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"It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours."
— A. M. Rosenthal

maradnu
June 28, 2009, 1:13 am
Who the **** thought that up?
bansaisequoia
December 24, 2009, 6:37 am
The editor of the New York Times. "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."--Ann Coulter

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"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, and perish in our own. "
— Francis Thompson

bansaisequoia
October 11, 2009, 2:10 am
"Paid with moan?" What a freakin' sweet world that would be. I can see myself at Best Buy now. " But I don't have enough money to pay for this 50-inch plasma HDTV. I was just laid off from my job. I worked so hard so I could get a TV. Can't I just take it home? " Cashier:"Thanks for making your purchase at Best Buy today, sir. Have a nice day!"

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"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
— Clarence Thomas

bansaisequoia
January 1, 2011, 4:44 pm
Nepotism, cronyism and favoritism will open doors that the best education cannot.

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"The "haves" and "have nots" can be traced back to the "dids" and "did nots.""
— Anthony Kulco

bansaisequoia
May 7, 2012, 3:01 pm
That is, did not have the unearned advantage of cronyism, favoritism or nepotism.

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"History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity."
— Dexter Perkins

fredsevent
September 19, 2011, 6:08 am
Interacting with live people should be more interesting (and stimulating) than history. Come down from your tower and live!
bansaisequoia
May 22, 2012, 7:23 pm
10-star comment, Fred.

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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
— Fulton John Sheen

pootie49
July 30, 2009, 11:33 pm
on y soit qui mal y pense
LiveLoveLaugh
November 8, 2009, 3:54 pm
Honi soit qui mal y pense evil to him who thinks evil
pootie49
January 10, 2010, 4:29 pm
its inscribed in the garter itself.
bansaisequoia
January 5, 2011, 7:17 pm
I always thought garters held up stockings.

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"A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence."
— Cathy Crimmins

kb83
June 13, 2014, 3:39 am
And then you may have trouble with your colon also.
JD_1947
November 16, 2014, 2:47 pm
I had an operation and only have a semi-colon . . .
bansaisequoia
January 27, 2017, 11:43 am
You could have a spell of irritable vowel syndrome.