Things that Bansai left for us

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"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. "
— John Kenneth Galbraith

bansaisequoia
February 28, 2009, 2:31 am
John Kenneth Galbraith was a Harvard economist who served as an advisor in the administrations of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He was a great detractor of the supply-side economic theory, which gave America it's highest unempolyment since the Great Depression during the Reagan Administration of the 1980s. His guidance during the FDR administration helped to lead the US out of depression and back into prosperity.

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"If you're a part of my family, I will love you violently."
— Charlie Sheen

bansaisequoia
May 1, 2012, 2:44 pm
If you're a part of my family, I must've been adopted. Or maybe they gave me the wrong name bracelet at the hospital.

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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
— Benjamin Franklin

bansaisequoia
July 26, 2012, 12:23 am
When the rich find that they can buy commercial time with anonymous donations, (a contingency which could not have been foreseen by Benjamin Franklin or any of the Founding Fathers) they can brainwash people into casting more votes in their favor, and that will herald the end of the Republic.

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"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. "
— Alexander Smith

bansaisequoia
September 4, 2009, 1:20 am
And it's about the only way I've ever heard of you. I'm not even interested in reading your wikipedia entry.

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"The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 13, 2009, 5:05 pm
Actually, this quote was translated from Athabascan.

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"I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself. "
— Carl Sandburg

bansaisequoia
August 29, 2011, 6:15 pm
I have solved some cryptograms that I don't understand myself.

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"Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave."
— Detroit Journal

bansaisequoia
October 28, 2014, 8:39 am
What a load of Bolshevik!
KittyKatMeow
May 19, 2020, 2:48 pm
Oh Bansai - you left us far too soon.

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"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P. J. O'Rourke

bansaisequoia
May 6, 2010, 4:36 am
Will I look good as I die, if I'm reading "Holidays In Hell" or "Republican Party Reptile?"

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"It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
March 19, 2011, 5:24 am
So if I want a chiseled, ripped face, should I frown a lot?
opallady
November 9, 2011, 1:39 am
The frown muscles greatly outnumber the smile muscles and are aided and abetted by gravity. If someone smiles at you they have to really work at it.
montyb
June 20, 2013, 1:04 am
Back in Junior high, I got a one day detention for goofing around in art class. Later, when the art teacher walked by the detention room, she said this very same thing. I told her that she must love to exercise. That became a week of detention.

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"I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never going to teach first and second grade."
— Mary J. Wilson

bansaisequoia
May 17, 2010, 5:35 pm
So, I'm looking at this puzzle and thinking, "That's not how Liv Tyler spells her last name." 45 seconds. D'oh!

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"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. "
— William M. Thackeray

bansaisequoia
October 11, 2009, 5:51 pm
But would you serve it with a White Grenache or a Cabernet Sauvignon?

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"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
— Abba Eban

bansaisequoia
May 7, 2009, 11:07 pm
Perhaps they're not behaving wisely, but they've exhausted all alternatives.

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"Be the first to the field and the last to the couch. "
— Chinese Proverb

bansaisequoia
January 11, 2011, 12:38 am
Today, couch potatoes watch broadcast images of people on the field.

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"Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe."
— Indian Proverb

bansaisequoia
October 1, 2012, 6:25 pm
Poor gnat. Drinking elephant bath water.

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"Don't burn your bridges before they're crossed. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 24, 2010, 1:12 am
I've burned bridges, but I'm so hardcore, I did the Australian crawl back to the other side.