Things that Bansai left for us

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"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
— Claude Levi-Strauss

bansaisequoia
August 29, 2009, 2:06 am
Or will humankind destroy the world?

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"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. "
— Robert Frost

bansaisequoia
March 18, 2011, 5:26 am
Or, I could cast my aspersions aside.

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"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. "
— Thomas Edison

opallady
February 21, 2009, 8:33 pm
What about all those quotes telling us to be happy with what we have?
maradnu
March 21, 2009, 1:53 am
Or a man who has already achieved what he needs.
bansaisequoia
January 22, 2011, 2:24 am
I don't think he's talking about personal contentment in this context. Obviously, most everyone thinks that some changes should be brought about in the world, though some would rather retrogress than progress.

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"It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while."
— Don Marquis

bansaisequoia
November 1, 2011, 5:22 pm
Has the flame vanquished me?

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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. "
— John Kenneth Galbraith

bansaisequoia
January 17, 2010, 2:34 am
That sounds like insider trading.

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"Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
June 16, 2011, 10:19 pm
And Sarah Palin, too!

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"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. "
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

bansaisequoia
October 24, 2010, 3:23 am
My fame is pianississimo, though my heart has been sforzando.

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"Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable."
— H.L. Mencken

bonsaisequoia
July 27, 2009, 1:04 am
(link) [Note: dead link.]

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"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
— Robert Fripp

bansaisequoia
November 13, 2010, 3:23 am
I have at least 30 different music CDs on which Robert Fripp appears. I'm skeptical as to the authenticity of this attribution.

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"On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends. "
— Benjamin Disraeli

Altoid701
March 9, 2009, 1:38 am
Sounds like something Yoda would say.
pootie49
March 21, 2009, 8:44 pm
backwards to speak this man likes
bansaisequoia
May 22, 2009, 3:55 pm
Like good syntax to me it sounded.

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"I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me? "
— Madonna

bansaisequoia
October 30, 2012, 3:53 pm
Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie?

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"There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 5, 2011, 5:32 pm
Soft, semi-soft, semi-hard and hard. Cheese, glorious cheese.

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"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
— Blaise Pascal

bansaisequoia
April 25, 2011, 6:22 pm
Actually, I'd rather be victorious without any fighting.

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"One aged man -- one man -- can't keep a house. "
— Robert Frost

bansaisequoia
June 1, 2010, 10:24 pm
I saw Les Paul live at the Iridium in Midtown Manhattan when he was in his nineties. There was not an empty seat in the place. An aged man can fill a house.

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"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum."
— Menander

bansaisequoia
May 22, 2010, 8:03 pm
Wikipedia says the phrase, "school of hard knocks," was originated by George Ade in 1912, so it is doubtful that this was said by Menander.