Things that Bansai left for us

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"Heroes are often the most ordinary of men."
— Henry David Thoreau

bansaisequoia
June 2, 2010, 5:45 am
And that's exactly why women pay attention to me until it's time to make a commitment.

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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. "
— Pablo Picasso

bansaisequoia
June 15, 2009, 3:36 pm
The author, David McCullough, who wrote that John Adams biography that was a runaway bestseller, was considering writing a bio of Pablo Picasso in 1982. After doing some research, he decided to scrap the project, because he found Picasso to be "a repellent human being."

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"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."
— Alvin Barkley

bansaisequoia
August 17, 2009, 9:46 pm
That's why all the comedy clubs serve alcohol.

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"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."
— Alben William Barkley

bansaisequoia
August 20, 2009, 1:18 am
That's why comedy clubs all serve alcohol!

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"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."
— Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

bansaisequoia
December 3, 2011, 12:57 am
I eat beefcakes and studmuffins.

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"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. "
— Walt Whitman

bansaisequoia
August 5, 2009, 2:45 pm
Even the trade of ne'er-do-welling?

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"Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero."
— Marc Brown

bansaisequoia
January 26, 2012, 3:48 am
Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, is the brother of Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl. He's a brother and a superhero!
pegxpeg
January 1, 2016, 4:19 am
Oh, bansai. Is there any limit to your wellspring of knowledge? You have my eyelashes all aflutter.

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"It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead."
— Dame Rose Macaulay

kat
April 28, 2010, 3:46 pm
Is she talking about "Sweetwater Creek"?
bansaisequoia
June 30, 2010, 9:41 pm
Maybe "Battlefield Earth," or "Atlas Shrugged."

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"I doubt anyone will ever see - anywhere - a memorial to a pessimist. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
August 26, 2009, 11:51 pm
There are a billion headstones out there. Undoubtedly one of them sits above the remains of a pessimist.
bansaisequoia
September 25, 2009, 7:13 pm
I'm optimistic that this is true.

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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. "
— George F. Will

bansaisequoia
July 7, 2010, 1:16 am
Unfortunately, I'm constantly being proven right.

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"A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
August 2, 2010, 4:14 am
My smother loves me. Er--that's not what I meant to say.

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"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
— Coleman Hawking

bansaisequoia
June 12, 2009, 12:19 am
When I google "Coleman Hawking," the number one response has to do with "Coleman Hawkins." I have a box set of 10 CDs sitting on my office desk by this jazz legend from the 1930s, who was a pioneer in jazz improvisation, so I have to believe that this quote was really said by him (if anyone)

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"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."
— Aaron Burr

bansaisequoia
February 28, 2009, 1:09 am
It's interesting to note that this quote was uttered by a one-time Vice President of the US, who engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton which brought about his death. Some years later, he was brought before Justice John Marshall on charges of treason.

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"In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space."
— Judith Stone

bansaisequoia

August 27, 2012

24 seconds

bansaisequoia
August 27, 2012, 8:41 pm
Should I donate a 4 TB external USB drive to Bellevue?
letfreedomring
October 15, 2019, 10:48 am
bansai has the record, the first comment, and today we learned of his death. This site will be forever changed.

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"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
— Charles Kuralt

bansaisequoia
May 25, 2012, 4:31 am
If you navigate by burger joints, you need to use a gastrolabe.

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"Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification! "
— Helen Rowland

pootie49
March 19, 2009, 3:06 pm
talk about multi-tasking
bansaisequoia
January 21, 2011, 1:57 am
(searching for my lost shaker of salt)
pootie49
May 24, 2011, 5:07 pm
its in marguaritaville, bansai. ask jimmy. he used it last.

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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. "
— Baruch Spinoza

bansaisequoia
November 20, 2009, 12:26 am
Mother Theresa was certainly very famous.