Things that Bansai left for us

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"Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
September 14, 2009, 8:06 pm
Jerry Garcia's first wife, Carolyn Adams, was also known as "Mountain Girl."

[boiboiboiboiboi]

"Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
September 14, 2009, 8:06 pm
Jerry Garcia's first wife, Carolyn Adams, was also known as "Mountain Girl."

Marry a city girl and you marry a tiny apartment. -Me

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"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

momof6
April 14, 2009, 4:30 am
Who doesn't want to bury themselves under the covers and go back to sleep when it's minus a lot outside?
bansaisequoia
June 8, 2009, 8:56 pm
I want to back to sleep and estivate when I know it's already 90 degrees F outside with 90% humidity. Whaddaya know, I stumped spell check with "estivate."

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"If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists."
— Jewish Proverb

bansaisequoia
May 27, 2013, 11:22 pm
If the post office gave away stamps, the world would be full of philatelists. If everyone felt no romantic love, the world would be full of philanderers. If there were no aesthetic discernment, the world would be full of Philistines.

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"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. "
— Judith Viorst

bansaisequoia
May 22, 2010, 8:04 pm
I have the strength to give the other three pieces to my friends.

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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. "
— Oscar Wilde

Altoid701
October 13, 2012, 1:56 am
bjarni herjolfsson!
bansaisequoia
November 17, 2012, 8:05 pm
Thanks for adding to my knowledge, Altoid!

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"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

bansaisequoia
June 23, 2010, 2:55 am
My five day work week is enough. I don't think I could stand 10 days.

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"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
— Andrew H. Malcolm

bansaisequoia
April 20, 2010, 9:11 pm
There's nothing like a Sunday drive in the country to promote Global Warming. (and drive the kids nuts)
pootie49
July 20, 2011, 1:49 pm
Or the many leisurely trips to the 7-11 one block away. come on kids we re going for a drive.

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"It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. "
— Jean Racine

maradnu
March 10, 2009, 1:49 am
Oh, poor guy. Love got him by the ****
bansaisequoia
February 29, 2012, 7:31 pm
It got him by the stars?

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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped."
— Calvin Coolidge

maradnu
May 22, 2009, 1:34 am
Misspelling - worshipped not worshiped. (link)
jespitan
May 25, 2009, 10:19 am
worshipped is written with a double P
bansaisequoia
June 7, 2009, 5:01 pm
Eau contraire. (link)

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"That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. "
— Georg Lichtenberg

bansaisequoia
September 6, 2009, 8:21 pm
We Tralfamadorians contest this.

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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. "
— Thomas Hobbes

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 12:59 am
(link)

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"The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - because everyone would join that party."
— Ronald Reagan

bansaisequoia
October 18, 2010, 4:04 am
That's odd. How come Russia isn't a one-party nation today?

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"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places."
— Mark Twain

bansaisequoia
January 11, 2012, 3:57 pm
I've got friends in low, low places.

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"A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury."
— Eric Pio

bansaisequoia
May 23, 2009, 8:57 pm
My great-grandmother had 13 children. She must have been ecstatic.