Things that Bansai left for us

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"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act."
— Talmud

bansaisequoia
April 12, 2010, 8:18 pm
We have rebelled.

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"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
— Dan Quayle

bansaisequoia
February 6, 2011, 5:46 pm
If we put Dan in exile.

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"Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?"
— Edith Sitwell

gryhnd51
August 15, 2009, 6:47 pm
my favorite quote for sure!
bansaisequoia
August 25, 2009, 11:46 pm
"Where the satyrs are chattering, nymphs with their flattering glimpse of the forest enhance All the beauty of marrow and cucumber narrow and Ceres will join in the dance. Where the satyrs can flatter the flat-leaved fruit and the gherkin green and the marrow, Said Queen Venus, 'Silenus, we'll settle between us the gourd and the cucumber narrow."-- Dame Edith Sitwell (1887--1964)

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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
— Abraham Lincoln

bansaisequoia
August 27, 2009, 9:48 pm
Then how did George W Bush get to be my president?

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"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2012, 5:12 pm
If the trees were ents, we could say, "Run, Forrest, run!" But ents do everything slowly. ( 'I have brought you about seventy thousand ent-strides, but what that comes to in the measurement of your land I do not know.'--Treebeard)

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"To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language."
— George Santayana

bansaisequoia
January 7, 2011, 12:58 am
Yabba gabbish ipple?

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"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. "
— Douglas Macarthur

bansaisequoia
September 30, 2009, 1:34 am
Is it liberty if you're in chains?

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "
— Victor Hugo

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 12:15 am
He qualifies it with "convinced."

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"The President is the people's lobbyist. "
— Hubert H. Humphrey

snappygranny
May 18, 2011, 5:48 pm
16 seconds, we'll see how long that stands...probably till bonsaisequoia gets it!
bansaisequoia
January 10, 2012, 7:33 pm
15 seconds, we'll see how long that stands...probably till nanrich gets it!

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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know."
— Dwight Eisenhower

bansaisequoia
November 20, 2010, 3:07 am
Actually, Ronald Reagan gave us 9.8% unemployment. Bill Clinton gave us a balanced budget in 1998. George W Bush gave us a $3 trillion war with a country that never attacked us, had no weapons of mass destruction, and has no more ties to Al-Qaida than Yemen. But we're not invading Yemen. North Korea (which Bush named an Axis of Evil country in his 2002 State of the Union Address) definitely has weapons of mass destruction the size of Hiroshima. But we're not invading North Korea, and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck will not give us reasons why. Think again about which party flagrantly wastes American taxpayer dollars.

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"Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
January 26, 2012, 8:33 pm
Scientists should always state the empirical evidence upon which their facts are based.

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"There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 11, 2012, 7:56 pm
The mice should've tried Hickory Farms or Cracker Barrel.

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"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
— Bertrand Russell

bansaisequoia
August 8, 2009, 11:28 pm
And cannot comedy be the product of great minds? The comedies written by William Shakespeare outnumber either the histories or the tragedies. And how about Aristophanes?

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"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
— Robert Benchley

bansaisequoia
July 10, 2010, 3:31 am
Robert Benchley's a monkey! Robert Benchley's a monkey!

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"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun."
— Frederick Buechner

haverwench
May 23, 2010, 11:54 pm
Dude, if you think that's more fun than lechery, you've got serious issues.
bansaisequoia
September 15, 2010, 5:12 pm
At least he said "possibly."