Things that Bansai left for us

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"Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too."
— Bill Vaughan

bansaisequoia
July 2, 2010, 3:10 am
Work is great if you work for the betterment of humankind. If I won Lotto, I would not to continue to rise each morning at 5AM to make tons of money for my employer as s/he pays me a meager subsistence. Work is overrated.

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"What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was not nailed down."
— Harlan Ellison

bansaisequoia
May 2, 2010, 4:57 am
Harlan Ellison is a Hugo Award winning author.

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"Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!"
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
July 16, 2011, 6:54 pm
I thought of this in the '90s when I first worked for Cheesecake Factory. (Believe me, they made me undergo a lot of stress.)

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"You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life. "
— Les Brown

bansaisequoia
September 19, 2009, 11:33 pm
Ridiculous. It's physically impossible for me to stand in my way.
pootie49
April 17, 2011, 1:26 am
if i push me out of the way, isnt that a paradox, one of those space time continuum thingies??

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"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how."
— Agnes de Mille

bansaisequoia
March 19, 2010, 2:58 am
If you didn't know this already, Agnes DeMille was a choreographer of great renown, and the niece of filmmaker, Cecil B. DeMille.

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"At any rate, I am convinced that God does not play dice."
— Albert Einstein

bansaisequoia
February 16, 2010, 11:50 pm
'Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.'--Stephen Hawking

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"Fire is the most tolerable third party."
— Henry David Thoreau

bansaisequoia
September 20, 2011, 7:50 pm
Can I cash checks endorsed by fire?

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"Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable?"
— Henry Anatole Grunwald

bansaisequoia
June 26, 2013, 7:13 pm
Lines are a fiction created by the minds of humankind. I am determined to show the futility of drawing one.

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"Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides."
— Assyrian Proverb

bansaisequoia
November 1, 2012, 2:18 am
Was that before Turkish prisons?

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"That which does not kill you, makes you stronger. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
July 27, 2010, 12:31 am
Are you sure? I thought it was from a Steven Seagal movie. Or was it Check Norris?

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"Society attacks early when the individual is helpless."
— B. F. Skinner

bansaisequoia
October 5, 2011, 2:07 pm
Dwight Schrute in a previous life?

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"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. "
— Franz Kafka

bansaisequoia
September 10, 2009, 8:35 pm
Then I'd rather live an illusion.

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"Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough."
— Ivan Pavlov

bansaisequoia
November 13, 2010, 3:31 am
Anyone with a pet and a can opener has already had the experience that led Pavlov to his great discovery. Does anyone have a dog with a saliva covered chew toy?

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"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches."
— E. E. Cummings

bansaisequoia
May 25, 2009, 5:39 pm
" o sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty . how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)"

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"The cynics are right nine times out of ten. "
— H.L. Mencken

bansaisequoia
July 4, 2009, 1:54 am
Yeah, sure. I bet.