Things that Bansai left for us

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"Let's have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
— Abraham Lincoln

bansaisequoia
May 31, 2009, 8:11 pm
Let's should have an apostrophe since it is a contraction of let us.

[Note: The punctuation error has since been rectified.]

[Toeprint]

"Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads."
— Henry David Thoreau

bansaisequoia
November 23, 2011, 8:24 pm
That went under my feet. Or is it the other way around?

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"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."
— Edmund Burke

MatthewReynolds
October 15, 2015, 7:50 am
47 seconds. But honestly I don't know how. It just happened. And who, pray tell, is bansaisequoia? He or she seems to be inhuman. 12 seconds? Seriously?
montyb
December 23, 2015, 3:50 am
Bansai is a immensely talented man and one of his talents is being an incredibly fast typist.
mtvoyager
March 13, 2019, 6:41 pm
Yeah, Montyb, I bet he uses two hands. I should try that. 106
Synonymous
July 12, 2020, 6:11 pm
The legend of Bansaisequoia lives on: (link)

[Toeprint]

"I think the world is run by 'C' students."
— Al McGuire

bansaisequoia
December 6, 2011, 2:01 pm
No wonder everything's so screwed up!

[Toeprint]

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. "
— B. F. Skinner

bansaisequoia
August 6, 2012, 8:27 pm
Okay, so if Goethe looks like Q from Star Trek TNG, then BF Skinner looks like Dwight Schrute from The Office.

[Toeprint]

"Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right."
— Alfred Austin

bansaisequoia
August 18, 2010, 8:05 pm
I'd rather live in a world where there is no wrong to be righted.

[Toeprint]

"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
— Keanu Reeves

bansaisequoia
April 25, 2011, 6:16 am
You were saying what now, Ted Theodore Logan?

[Toeprint]

"It is only the ignorant who despise education. "
— Publilius Syrus

datagawa
September 30, 2010, 1:53 am
Publius
bansaisequoia
October 24, 2010, 3:59 am
I beg to differ. (link)

[Toeprint]

"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them."
— Charles Buxton

bansaisequoia
October 1, 2012, 3:31 am
I derived greater pleasure just now by breaking my previous record time by one second.

[Toeprint]

"Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows."
— P.A. Fiorentino

bansaisequoia
March 28, 2010, 7:11 pm
Is this an insult, or a compliment?!?!
pootie49
June 25, 2012, 3:38 pm
depends if you have a hangover or not.

[Toeprint]

"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel."
— Faith Sullivan

bansaisequoia
August 31, 2009, 11:47 pm
Truly impressive time, countess.
countessofmontecry
February 16, 2012, 8:55 pm
Back to you, Bansais.

4.	bansaisequoia	July 12, 2010	17 seconds
5.	countessofmontecrypto	June 28, 2009	18 seconds

[Toeprint]

"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."
— Aeschylus

silveryaspen
June 11, 2009, 7:26 pm
Ye Olde English .... arghhhhh!
bansaisequoia
December 20, 2009, 12:36 am
As if it was spoken by Ancient Greeks.

[Toeprint]

"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1."
— Ernest Rutherford

bansaisequoia
August 15, 2009, 12:18 am
This just didn't seem like something a witty physicist would have said, so I dug a little further and found the quote to be this: "You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 to the 12 to 1 against."

[Toeprint]

"Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods. "
— Unattributed

maradnu
July 4, 2009, 6:22 pm
Life is but a dream, sha-boom, sha-boom.
bansaisequoia
July 11, 2010, 3:21 pm
Actually, the lyric by The Crewcuts is, "Life Could Be A Dream."

[Toeprint]

"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected."
— Jimmy Cannon

bansaisequoia
April 15, 2010, 3:40 am
This is a definite "coulda woulda" quote. I first tried "grayed" or "brayed." I gotta remember that it could have been a frayed Christmas Tree light of yesteryear that might have caused a fire. Good thing I caught it in time. I'm glad I saved your holiday.
montyb
July 6, 2013, 1:41 am
Frayed...grayed. It's me either way.