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  • "If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose."
    — Dr. Seuss

    bansaisequoia
    September 10, 2010, 7:59 pm
    '...to the city of Boola Boo Ball On the banks of the beautiful River Woo-Wall, Where they never have troubles! No troubles at all! So I started to go. But I didn't. Instead... I did some quick thinking Inside of my head. Then I started back home To the Valley of Vung. I know I'll have troubles. I'll, maybe, get stung. I'll always have troubles. I'll, maybe, get bit By the Green-Headed Quail On the place where I sit. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me!'
    CarpeLanam
    September 28, 2020, 4:44 pm
    And Bansai was quoting "I had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew," always a favorite of mine. 500 hats off to Dr. Seuss!

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    • "It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. "
      — Oscar Wilde

      bansaisequoia
      August 14, 2009, 10:48 pm
      Dogs playing poker and Black Velvet Elvis?
      Lurker
      October 16, 2009, 5:15 pm
      Ever see Antiques Roadshow?
      bansaisequoia
      October 25, 2009, 2:18 am
      Everything in your attic is worth millions! Honest.
      Lily H
      August 4, 2011, 1:23 am
      Too bad I don't have an attic or a basement.
      bansaisequoia
      October 14, 2011, 7:14 am
      They'd be worth millions if you did. Honest.

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      • "We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. "
        — Brigham Young

        bansaisequoia
        May 27, 2010, 8:43 pm
        I'm willing to use a butane lighter or a butcher knife, but as a loving father, I would not put them into the hands of a four-year-old.

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        • "Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community."
          — Richard Milhous Nixon

          bansaisequoia
          May 14, 2010, 10:53 pm
          Wouldn't it follow, then, that violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of government?

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          • "In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. "
            — Thomas Carlyle

            pootie49
            April 11, 2009, 1:16 am
            OOOH Curse you Carlyle!!!
            bansaisequoia
            July 1, 2009, 5:42 pm
            Curse you, Red Puzzle Baron!
            joma1944
            December 8, 2013, 7:56 am
            Bless you pootie!

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            "Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."
            — Myron Tribus

            haverwench
            June 20, 2010, 10:57 pm
            Beaten by two seconds! Curse you, bansaisequoia!
            bansaisequoia
            September 5, 2010, 5:34 pm
            Curse you, Red Puzzle Baron!
            Last edited by Toeprint; 09-20-2021, 06:27 AM.

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            • "Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards."
              — Charles W. Chesnutt

              bansaisequoia
              October 16, 2009, 10:29 pm
              (link)

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              • Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. "
                — Virgil

                bansaisequoia
                July 7, 2010, 3:05 am
                It depends upon the "this."

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                • "Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?"
                  — Marilyn Monroe

                  bansaisequoia
                  August 5, 2010, 11:55 pm
                  Works for me.

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                  • "It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf."
                    — H.L. Mencken

                    bansaisequoia
                    October 2, 2009, 7:29 pm
                    It is impossible to imagine Willie Mosconi or Tiger Woods being good at writing drama or composing music.

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                    • "Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof. "
                      — Unattributed

                      pootie49
                      March 3, 2009, 7:06 pm
                      pretense
                      bansaisequoia
                      June 5, 2009, 3:02 pm
                      If the speaker of the quote is from the British Isles, that is the correct spelling.
                      Quizzical
                      March 14, 2014, 5:26 am
                      Pootie, even though you are gone, you are still with us through your comments. Thanks for being a part of Cryptograms.
                      blueladyblue
                      April 25, 2018, 12:08 pm
                      It's unique to the Baron, I think, that people can maintain this strange type of distant friendship through years of solving puzzles. Quizz left that comment about Pootie 4 years ago and it's still touching.
                      LLapp
                      March 24, 2019, 1:57 am
                      This is a magic zone.
                      Wordigo
                      September 7, 2020, 9:38 pm
                      Yes we are communicating across time.
                      hrossa
                      April 28, 2021, 10:48 pm
                      My favorite thing about these comments - the years of conversation!

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                      • "The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. "
                        — Pablo Picasso

                        bansaisequoia
                        October 15, 2009, 10:56 pm
                        Does he advocate technique, or implore you to abandon it?

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                        • "Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate. As we voyage along through life, 'tis the set of the soul that decides its goal, and not the calm or the strife."
                          — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

                          bansaisequoia
                          September 21, 2009, 12:14 am
                          Don't the Pirates of the Caribbean sing this one?

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                          • "A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. "
                            — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

                            Lurker
                            September 10, 2009, 6:46 pm
                            Why trilobites? Why not crocodiles or dinosaurs?
                            bansaisequoia
                            September 5, 2010, 6:45 pm
                            Crocodiles are still around.
                            pootie49
                            July 19, 2012, 7:31 am
                            I consider myself to have above average intelligence, yet in the presence of monty and bansai I suddenly feel a bit like Homer Simpson or more fitting "a dumb blonde" ...I wouldnt know a trilobite if it er bit me. Lucky Im goofy eh?
                            gryhnd51
                            December 1, 2013, 8:20 pm
                            Trilobites are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest known groups of arthropods. Wikipedia

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                            • "If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed."
                              — Lily Tomlin

                              bansaisequoia
                              July 10, 2012, 8:46 am
                              If I read a lot, I'm considered bookish. But, since I'm making bad wordplay, should you punish me?

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                              • "I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science."
                                — Heinz Pagels

                                bansaisequoia
                                May 24, 2013, 3:43 pm
                                Read some of his work in the '80s. Never realized he died younger than me. (link)

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