Things that Bansai left for us

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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts. "
— Voltaire

bansaisequoia
November 27, 2009, 6:58 pm
"Every single one of us the devil inside."--Andrew Farriss & Michael Hutchence

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"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
December 2, 2010, 3:47 am
And the corporations will ensure that our pursuit of happiness will be like that of the horse pursuing the carrot-on-a-stick.

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"My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged."
— Euripides

ZeebaNeighba
April 26, 2012, 2:09 am
Euripides? Eumendades!
bansaisequoia
March 25, 2013, 5:08 pm
Ubracum. Ubium.

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"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love."
— Ann Landers

bansaisequoia
July 15, 2009, 11:50 pm
So they should read the Sun Tzu Kama Sutra? That must have some weird illustrations.

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"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. "
— Benjamin Disraeli

maradnu
March 1, 2009, 9:27 pm
And on which planet is this England?
bansaisequoia
June 3, 2009, 10:01 pm
Earth (Sol III)
tabbyclaw
May 24, 2011, 8:41 am
The nation that gave us Doctor Who cannot be accused of lacking in the enthusiasm department.
bansaisequoia
February 1, 2012, 7:42 pm
Not to mention Judge Dredd and James Bond.
colinmochrie
February 26, 2012, 8:29 am
I'd say quite the opposite... Well, maybe they lost their alleged enthusiasm along the way.
pootie49
July 5, 2012, 5:54 pm
get a few pints in em though and they re enthusiastic all over the pavement. (no not all of them, just those few yobbos)

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"I have gained this by philosophy, that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
— Aristotle

bansaisequoia
August 19, 2010, 6:17 pm
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't drink that cup of hemlock if the law demanded it.

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"My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark."
— Robert Brault


montyb
June 23, 2012, 12:45 am
Dog-ear the page, then.
bansaisequoia
September 19, 2012, 6:59 pm
Adobe Reader has a function for that, so you don't have to remember a bookmark or a dog ear or the page number.

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"If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double."
— Robert H Bork

Lurker
May 2, 2010, 11:44 pm
Um, only if EVERY child, both male and female, has two. Assuming there is both a mother and father involved, two children PER COUPLE would be zero population growth.
bansaisequoia
September 3, 2010, 7:54 pm
That's flawed reasoning. It would also depend on life expectancy. Obviously, if people lived to be 1,000 years old instead of 70, the world would be far more crowded.

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"A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. "
— E. B. White

abra
May 20, 2015, 2:01 pm
I always remember the comments more than the quote. Isn't this same quote duplicated, with a comment by bansai, with a link to a hat with a veil, that has a zipper?
marnita
September 1, 2016, 2:40 pm
Yes, abra, I just had that version of the quote earlier today and checked out bansai's link.

Edit:
"A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. "
— E. B. White

kat
June 6, 2009, 10:46 pm
Unzip a veil??
bansaisequoia
July 2, 2009, 7:03 pm
Evidently, they exist. (link) [Note: Original link is dead. Try this: http://web.archive.org/web/201509182...ges/BS335.jpg ]

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"You're only as good as the people you hire."
— Ray Kroc

bansaisequoia
January 8, 2012, 10:35 pm
Sounds like a Kroc to me.

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"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. "
— Jonathan Swift

bansaisequoia
May 26, 2009, 9:34 pm
I've never been to a London coffeehouse. What's it like?

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"Every man serves a useful purpose. A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."
— Laurence J. Peter

bansaisequoia
March 31, 2017, 5:36 pm
Mine would've had the world's most expensive final service.

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"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. "
— Gilbert Chesterton

bansaisequoia
July 13, 2009, 5:17 pm
I've always thought that Chesterton was the most inane figure ever quoted on this site. You can even read it in my post from 9/9/2008. (link) At least Jack Handey is trying to be humorous. GK Chesterton takes himself seriously.

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"Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body. "
— Juvenal

bansaisequoia
June 11, 2010, 7:00 pm
I pray for an yzarc mind in an yzarc body.

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"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. "
— Karl Marx

JCarlosCuevas
May 24, 2009, 10:14 pm
34.9% only?? Come on! Just like "Call me Ishmael", this is probably one of the most famous opening lines in world literature. :-(
bansaisequoia
November 15, 2009, 7:20 pm
A screaming comes across the sky...
bansaisequoia
December 22, 2009, 6:45 pm
Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.
bonszaisequioa
February 22, 2010, 2:08 am
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness...
opallady
April 1, 2010, 1:02 am
" A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
bansaisequoia
July 28, 2012, 7:29 pm
I am Sam. I am Sam. Sam-I-Am. That Sam-I-Am. That Sam-I-Am. I do not like that Sam-I-Am...
bansaisequoia
September 18, 2013, 1:41 pm
Now is the Winter of our discontent...
fredsevent
January 31, 2014, 2:02 am
No. JCC.It is not. It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. --Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
Annamariah
April 5, 2014, 1:41 am
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
momof7
May 20, 2014, 5:38 am
Once upon a time...