"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
— Keanu Reeves
bansaisequoia
April 25, 2011, 6:16 am
You were saying what now, Ted Theodore Logan?
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"Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right."
— Alfred Austin
bansaisequoia
August 18, 2010, 8:05 pm
I'd rather live in a world where there is no wrong to be righted.
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"The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. "
— B. F. Skinner
bansaisequoia
August 6, 2012, 8:27 pm
Okay, so if Goethe looks like Q from Star Trek TNG, then BF Skinner looks like Dwight Schrute from The Office.
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"I think the world is run by 'C' students."
— Al McGuire
bansaisequoia
December 6, 2011, 2:01 pm
No wonder everything's so screwed up!
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"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."
— Edmund Burke
MatthewReynolds
October 15, 2015, 7:50 am
47 seconds. But honestly I don't know how. It just happened. And who, pray tell, is bansaisequoia? He or she seems to be inhuman. 12 seconds? Seriously?
montyb
December 23, 2015, 3:50 am
Bansai is a immensely talented man and one of his talents is being an incredibly fast typist.
mtvoyager
March 13, 2019, 6:41 pm
Yeah, Montyb, I bet he uses two hands. I should try that. 106
Synonymous
July 12, 2020, 6:11 pm
The legend of Bansaisequoia lives on: (link)
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"Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads."
— Henry David Thoreau
bansaisequoia
November 23, 2011, 8:24 pm
That went under my feet. Or is it the other way around?
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"Let's have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
— Abraham Lincoln
bansaisequoia
May 31, 2009, 8:11 pm
Let's should have an apostrophe since it is a contraction of let us.
[Note: The punctuation error has since been rectified.]
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"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. "
— Samuel Johnson
bonsaisequoia
November 28, 2009, 5:23 am
(link) (Note: Original link is dead, visit https://web.archive.org/web/20101211...ublockhead.jpg instead.)
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"You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. The view from Mir put everything in perspective."
— Shannon Lucid
datagawa
August 24, 2010, 1:27 pm
I've thought about building a small orbital shuttle and going up one day, but my differential geometry is somewhat shaky.
bansaisequoia
August 14, 2012, 7:20 pm
I've been working on using my psi powers to teleport myself into orbit, and then using trascendental meditation techniques to alter my metabolism to endure the cold and vacuum of space. No luck so far.
skoogie2
August 5, 2013, 4:57 pm
Okay, it's a year later, did it work yet?
JenDiaz72
January 2, 2015, 10:22 am
Ha Ha Ha... obviously not...
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"I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. "
— Somerset Maugham
LiveLoveLaugh
May 15, 2010, 8:13 pm
Phone books work in a pinch
beckylou
January 31, 2012, 3:13 pm
Cereal boxes too.
bansaisequoia
May 17, 2012, 3:51 am
Have you ever noticed shampoos frequently contain ammonium lauryl sulfate and methylisothiazolinone?
montyb
November 29, 2014, 6:23 pm
I like to read tee shirts. And yes Bansai, I did. Even most dog shampoos contain those chemicals.
Highpoint
March 4, 2015, 12:01 pm
Yep, kindred spirits recognize each other immediately. The time I spent in the Army was doubly miserable because of the lack of reading material. We were not permitted newspapers, magazines, or books. We had no TV or radio. I had no idea what was going on in the world. I found myself reading bulletin board notices and laundry instructions just to keep my mind awake. I'm convinced that part of my intellectual capacity was irrevocably damaged from the military experience.
marnita
June 24, 2015, 6:52 am
Is this still true in the military?
wvwoman
December 4, 2015, 6:54 am
when was this, highpoint?
abra
March 21, 2016, 8:19 am
I wonder when too, or maybe it was the "where". My husband was in the military for about 21 years. He never had these restrictions. It must be a "when" or a "where". I think all readers HAVE to read. Watch children, when they've just learned to read. It's amazing how quickly, they start reading the cereal box. I wonder what the illiterate do instead. There must be something.
SwampySox
June 5, 2016, 4:17 pm
We buy the CD.
Persephone59
August 25, 2017, 10:42 pm
I'm not Jewish, but reading labels led me to switch to kosher light sour cream. It only has two ingredients. And yes, I too have read the shampoo labels in the shower.
Highpoint
May 9, 2018, 12:31 pm
wvwoman, from 1967-1971. I was in Army Security Agency and stationed in Turkey and later Thailand. There was a belief that the SDS and other left wing organizations were infiltrating the military to spy on us and to foment dissatisfaction among the ranks. That was a rather dubious possibility, but, the officers and NCO's believed it. There was no way to acquire magazines, newspapers, or books where I was stationed, and our lockers were regularly searched for contraband (drugs, weapons, reading material). We were allowed one item of a religious nature. One guy had his Greek Orthodox bible confiscated because the officer who spotted it thought it was written in Russian and went berserk (the Russian Cyrillic alphabet is based upon the Greek alphabet and they are somewhat similar.) Our mail was read and censored by an officer (we were dealing in classified material and this was supposedly to prevent us from revealing something secret.) The reason for confiscating incoming books or magazines was to prevent us from being radicalized. How Sports Illustrated or Playboy was supposed to do that was beyond me. But, I was just an E-4 and did not understand the big picture.
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"I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it."
— Thomas Jackson
bansaisequoia
May 11, 2011, 2:21 am
I find this to be specious reasoning.
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"Only in solitude do we find ourselves, and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude."
— Miguel de Unamuno
bansaisequoia
July 13, 2010, 8:06 pm
Miguel de Unamuno
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"A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks."
— Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib
bansaisequoia
February 5, 2011, 12:44 pm
That sounds like it came off the top of your head.
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"The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth."
— Mary McLeod Bethune
chipmunkcheeks
October 3, 2010, 3:29 am
Is Mary McLeod Bethune from Africa. Bansaisequoia you set the record of almost eery cryptogram.
bansaisequoia
January 8, 2012, 7:50 pm
Some of the cryptos I solve are eery. (link)
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"Every game ever invented by mankind is a way of making things hard for the fun of it."
— John Anthony Ciardi
bansaisequoia
May 18, 2010, 4:54 pm
Even Go Fish and War?
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