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  • "We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. "
    — Sir Walter Scott

    montyb
    May 10, 2012, 6:27 pm
    There was enough snow in northern Indiana this last winter to build a snow bust.
    bansaisequoia
    October 11, 2012, 7:52 pm
    There has been enough 21st Century snow in South Florida to sculpt a void.

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    • "You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
      — Marvin Minsky

      bansaisequoia
      August 10, 2012, 3:48 pm
      That's why I read the Kama Sutra! Giggety giggety giggety!
      montyb
      August 1, 2013, 10:39 pm
      You should try the Braille version.

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      • "The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret - they mainly make models."
        — John von Neumann

        bansaisequoia
        January 9, 2011, 3:57 am
        I had to Google this one. It turns out that Johann von Neumann is another name for Hungarian-born, American mathemetician and economist, John von Neumann, whose birth name was Neumann János Lajos. I was also surprised to find that he never seems to have won the Nobel Prize. (Or can someone call me to account on this?)

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        • "Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day."
          — Stephen Jay Gould

          bansaisequoia
          September 26, 2010, 2:58 pm
          Stephen Jay Gould is so hip, he was on "The Simpsons."

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          • "An audience can really lift you right up off the stage."
            — Don Van Vliet

            bansaisequoia
            September 6, 2012, 8:11 pm
            Did Captain Beefheart invent crowd surfing?(link)


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            • "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "
              — D.H. Lawrence
              # Player Date Solve Time
              1. bansaisequoia March 12, 2011 10 seconds
              mokonabarb
              October 5, 2014, 3:27 am
              I cant believe 19 seconds isn't enough to be the top time. Bansaisequoia is a genius! Anyhow...how about ...to save the tale from the artist through whom the Muse sang it?

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              • "Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet."
                — Welsh Proverb

                bansaisequoia
                October 3, 2011, 4:19 pm
                My bad news comes like a double bill of Michael Flatley's Riverdance and Stomp, with special guests Megatron and the Decepticons.

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                • "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. "
                  — H.L. Mencken

                  bansaisequoia
                  November 22, 2009, 6:43 pm
                  I bet he thinks he's saving humanity with his aphorisms.

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                  • "Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. "
                    — Thomas Fuller

                    JD_1947
                    November 23, 2014, 9:49 am
                    . . good quote! . . I like it! . . . 59 seconds . . how does bansai do it . . does he have a crypto-cracker software program . . . ?
                    Lurker
                    February 13, 2015, 12:46 pm
                    He has the best one ever designed... his brain.
                    maradnu
                    June 22, 2016, 5:45 am
                    He is very smart, has a good memory for quotes, has good solving skills, a fast internet connection, and is a touch typist. Killer combination.
                    Shirli
                    November 17, 2017, 12:00 pm
                    I still think he is a bot
                    LLapp
                    June 7, 2019, 1:59 am
                    If he were a bot, he would solve in 2 seconds, and he would have a 100% success rate.

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                    • "You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. "
                      — Alexander Pope

                      bansaisequoia
                      August 5, 2010, 6:20 pm
                      What if he means there's no corpse in the house?

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                      • "When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. "
                        — Arthur Rimbaud

                        bansaisequoia
                        September 10, 2009, 8:19 pm
                        "When I was seventeen It was a very good year."--Ervin Drake (just don't listen to the William Shatner version)

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                        • "I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. "
                          — George Eliot

                          bansaisequoia
                          September 25, 2009, 12:19 am
                          Good thing she never met Isaac Asimov.

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                          • "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "
                            — Friedrich Nietzsche

                            bansaisequoia
                            July 31, 2012, 4:09 am
                            "Wisdom is the domain of the wis."--Dale Bozzio

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                            • "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. "
                              — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

                              bansaisequoia
                              December 6, 2009, 10:58 pm
                              Same here, duder.
                              LLapp
                              June 5, 2021, 4:35 am
                              Bansaisequoia, aka Joseph Kartheiser of Boca Raton, left us at age 57 on September 24, 2019. His comment at the top of this thread gave me a big lump in my throat. His sense of humor really was a godsend for him. (link)

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                              • "By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me."
                                — Andrew Schneider

                                bansaisequoia
                                June 11, 2009, 11:47 pm
                                Mid-November is when I breathe a sigh of relief that hurricane season is finally over.

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