Things that Bansai left for us

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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
June 13, 2009, 10:50 pm
And two Wrights make an airplane.

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"That cannot be safe which is not honourable."
— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

smoochie222
March 29, 2009, 1:45 pm
why the British spelling?
bansaisequoia
June 16, 2009, 12:02 am
If an ancient Roman say it, isn't it Albionish spelling?

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"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. "
— Karl Kraus

bansaisequoia
October 9, 2009, 12:54 am
(link) [The link is broken; the URL leads to a jpeg titled "darth crutch".]

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"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
— Charlie Chaplin

bansaisequoia
September 14, 2013, 1:56 pm
And a boot made with licorice.

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"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. "
— Henry Miller

bansaisequoia
January 30, 2011, 6:15 am
Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique is a piece of program music which tells the story of "an artist gifted with a lively imagination" who has "poisoned himself with opium" in the "depths of despair" because of "hopeless love." (paraphrase from Wikipedia)

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"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
January 19, 2010, 6:16 pm
So you're saying I can secure that independent income through vice?

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“The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.”

- Iain McGilchrist

kat
April 4, 2009, 6:02 pm
busyness!!! That messed me up!
bansaisequoia
June 20, 2009, 1:49 am
This quote has definitely interfered with my pursuit of happyness.
kat
July 10, 2009, 4:16 pm
It did it again! Crap!!!!
bansaisequoia
September 21, 2009, 12:28 am
The word "busyness" has impeded my pursuit of happyness.
kat
February 3, 2010, 4:17 pm
I remembered the 'y' this time, but it still took me 43 seconds. Crap!
kat
February 21, 2010, 7:26 pm
And 64 seconds this time! Crap I say!
bansaisequoia
August 11, 2011, 3:29 pm
23 FTW!

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"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward."
— Lewis Carroll

bansaisequoia
January 1, 2011, 1:10 am
I try to remember the future, but oftentimes fail.

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"When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot."
— Larry Lujack

abra
October 9, 2012, 4:20 am
I think he was a DJ a long time ago.
bansaisequoia
October 29, 2012, 2:01 am
Larry Lujack was at WLS Chicago when I was in college. Way to make me feel really old!

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"I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons."
— Yannick Noah

pootie49
May 29, 2011, 2:26 pm
oh he was cute.
bansaisequoia
January 11, 2012, 6:20 pm
There's nothing cute about gladiators with weapons.

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"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
— Wystan Hugh Auden

bansaisequoia
April 22, 2010, 1:05 pm
"He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint"--Wystan Hugh Auden
bansaisequoia
January 11, 2012, 2:09 pm
And did you know that WH Auden actually wrote opera libretti for Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky and Hans Werner Henze?

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"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
— David Lloyd George

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2009, 5:12 pm
So I should a big step into the chasm???
bansaisequoia
April 13, 2010, 11:34 pm
*So I should take a big step into the chasm?

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"We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. "
— Henry Miller

bansaisequoia
December 13, 2009, 7:51 pm
That's not what I read in USA Today Snapshots.

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"I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. "
— Horace

PianoManGidley
April 27, 2009, 5:42 pm
The fact that even this quote alone survived is testament to its own validity.
bansaisequoia
September 9, 2009, 11:45 pm
Well spoken, PianoMan

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"This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying."
— William Kunstler

bansaisequoia
March 22, 2011, 4:42 am
The most annoying New Yorkers emigrated to Palm Beach County. Manhattan now seems like Politenessville to me.