Things that Bansai left for us

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"Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit."
— Francis Marion

bansaisequoia
September 15, 2010, 1:00 am
If it doesn't bear fruit, why is it called a plum tree?

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"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach. "
— Lee Iacocca

AnotherPenguin
November 29, 2020, 1:09 am
NO I WAS SO CLOSE TO THE RECORD. Rip bansaisequoia tho :,( [AnotherPenguin tied Bansai's record time.]

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"The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire."
— Leigh Hunt

bansaisequoia
October 23, 2014, 1:18 pm
He might have been a Phlogiston Chemist.

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"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it."
— Stanley Garn

bansaisequoia
May 3, 2010, 12:23 am
I flunked Didgeridoo, Boomerang and Dreamtime Walkabouts 101.

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"There are only 3 sports: Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games."
— Ernest Hemingway

bansaisequoia
May 11, 2010, 6:33 pm
You mean, he doesn't include marlin fishing?

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"Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. "
— Ambrose Bierce

eis
April 27, 2010, 1:56 pm
Gotta love that British snobbery
bansaisequoia
November 27, 2010, 12:58 am
Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio.

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"Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
April 17, 2011, 12:58 am
I've put a doggie treat in one of my hands, and then held out both fists for my dog to choose. Usually, he put his paw on the correct fist. Animals choose.

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"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"
— Kathleen Norris

bansaisequoia
January 30, 2011, 6:34 am
If you have ten thousand dollars and a billionaire has a billion dollars, be content. Obviously that billionaire has worked one hundred thousand times as hard as you, since s/he has one hundred thousand times as much money as you do.

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"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

bansaisequoia
July 10, 2012, 8:18 am
Once, there was this Swamp Monster who dogmatized Scooby-Doo, but the gang got him back in the Mystery Machine, and brought him to his senses with a few Scooby Snacks.

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"I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."
— Zsa Zsa Gabor

bansaisequoia
April 18, 2017, 3:15 pm
She never married ME!!!

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"Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces. "
— Wallace Stevens

bansaisequoia
July 14, 2009, 1:34 am
And what if he read Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Norman Mailer or Nicholson Baker?
montyb
April 13, 2015, 11:13 pm
He would have said, "I'll have to keep an eye out for these".

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"If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
April 24, 2010, 8:04 am
Wasn't this an "I Love Lucy" episode?

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"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. "
— Lord Byron

bansaisequoia
May 26, 2010, 5:12 pm
Tell that to British Petroleum.
kb77
September 22, 2011, 10:38 am
we can ruin the ocean, but not control it.
318WOZ
March 24, 2019, 10:05 pm
I think that oil spills have been a fairly infrequent problem. The big problem is all of the plastic garbage floating around. We're definitely marking the ocean with that. Byron's sentiment and language are still nice, though.

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"Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued."
— Bob Hope

bansaisequoia
May 9, 2012, 4:52 pm
Eating baby goats is murder!

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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. "
— Robert Frost

bansaisequoia
June 30, 2009, 10:38 pm
The majority of wood baseball bats are mad from ash, not birch.