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  • #91
    0E303D7A-F47B-46E1-875D-88DCA83B8BB9.png This is not a comment from Bansai, I just thought it interesting that he not only set the record on this quote, but he also tied himself for the record.

    "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein

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    • #92
      "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." — Bertrand Russell

      thresa
      June 7, 2010, 10:43 pm
      I feel that bansaisequoia might know some technological trick for solving these more quickly than the human mind and fingers could do

      bansaisequoia
      July 12, 2010, 1:39 am
      I don't use a technological trick for speed. I recommend fast living, staying out late and impure thoughts.

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      • #93
        "If it helps to make people think a little bit more about what those ideals are, then I'll keep wearing this uniform."
        — Barbara Adams

        bansaisequoia
        December 16, 2009, 7:01 pm
        Barbara Adams was an alternate juror in the Whitewater Case in the '90s. She was the one who wore a Star Trek:TNG uniform every day to the proceedings. I thought this might shed some light.

        SillySil
        October 30, 2010, 11:48 pm
        I don't know what TNG is but thanks for the info bit.

        pootie49
        April 25, 2011, 11:36 pm
        star trek: the next generation...and she did?? and they let her?

        gryhnd51
        September 9, 2011, 12:06 am
        The uniform mya have been a bit over the top, but every Star Trek episode/movie conveyed an extremely high level of idealism.

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        • #94
          (You know a guy is pretty special if he can elicit a compliment from nevadasmith68.)

          "We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."

          — Wystan Hugh Auden

          bansaisequoia
          October 11, 2012, 8:03 pm

          No one's been doing good to me. Who's not doing their job?

          Delphve
          February 14, 2013, 3:20 pm

          Sorry, it's me. I've been spending too much time solving these puzzles instead of doing good.

          nevadasmith68
          May 26, 2013, 1:07 am

          Is bansaisequoia a super computer? If he's not already, he should be the head of the NSC decoding messages. All of that is meant as a compliment.

          crypto-yes
          May 7, 2014, 12:52 pm

          I was wondering the same thing myself.

          Persephone59
          October 29, 2017, 7:47 am

          One of these quotes has a comment about there being You Tube video showing Bansaisequoia solving...haven't looked at it at this point.

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          • #95
            "It's important to begin a search on a full stomach." — Henry Bromell

            bansaisequoia
            April 19, 2010, 1:55 pm
            Filet of Wahoo before Yahoo! or Kugel before Google?

            bansaisequoia
            April 7, 2012, 3:41 pm
            Calamari for Safari and Nova Lox for Firefox?

            bansaisequoia
            September 21, 2012, 10:02 pm
            Wine by the flagon for Comodo Dragon? Cheese curd before Comet Bird?

            kb83
            July 17, 2014, 6:14 am
            Steak out before a Stakeout.

            dovid1946
            December 16, 2014, 8:08 am
            chicken breast before a quest

            kb83
            October 9, 2017, 4:00 am
            Have porridge before you forage. Have a brisket before you frisk it.

            kb83
            February 21, 2018, 3:43 am
            Have a leek before you seek.

            kb83
            January 4, 2019, 8:11 am
            Turf before you surf.

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            • #96
              My thanks to bansai for this tiny vivid portrait of some unnamed dear person from years ago.


              "No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it." — H. E. Luccock

              bansaisequoia
              August 21, 2009, 7:08 pm
              Years ago, when I went to Conservatory, I lived across the street from an attorney who could whistle all of Brahms' Symphony #2 from memory.

              bansaisequoia
              May 10, 2011, 6:33 am
              He would whistle it as he walked home from his office down the ice-paved sidewalks of Northern Wisconsin.


              (Bansai's 10-second record for this quote has stood since February 19, 2011.)

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              • #97
                "Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
                — Arnold Glasgow

                bansaisequoia
                February 4, 2012, 3:52 pm
                If hiccoughing persists for four hours after taking Laughter, please seek immediate medical help. Patients who are taking nitrous oxide should not use Laughter. If you are taking nitrous oxide, please consult your physician.

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                • #98
                  "There's more to the truth than just the facts."
                  — Unattributed

                  bansaisequoia
                  July 28, 2012, 6:48 pm
                  That's not how Sgt Joe Friday rolls.

                  wvwoman
                  April 12, 2014, 6:42 am
                  haha! bansai.

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                  • #99
                    "The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
                    — George F. Will

                    bansaisequoia
                    October 11, 2009, 2:36 am
                    Except when they do that countdown thing with Dick Clark.

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                    • "If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose."
                      — Jack Handey

                      bansaisequoia
                      May 2, 2012, 5:20 pm
                      I reached enlightenment drinking milk at the card table in the basement of my uncle's house on Thanksgiving when I was a boy.

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                      • "I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get."
                        — Richard Milhous Nixon


                        bansaisequoia
                        October 30, 2012, 9:24 pm

                        The cooler is what you should've got!

                        vivian1874
                        June 11, 2013, 2:50 pm

                        K.

                        abra
                        January 11, 2015, 10:08 am

                        Oh, Tricky Dick, you were NEVER cool.

                        jnoodles
                        April 3, 2015, 12:48 pm

                        A very lonely man.

                        marnita

                        July 20, 2015, 9:30 am

                        I'm with you, Bansai!

                        darkyr
                        March 28, 2017, 5:15 am

                        How lonely are we to write comments that a handful of people might read months or years from now?

                        MamaB
                        April 17, 2017, 5:39 am

                        It's not lonely for us! I've gotten to know some cool people and I learn a good bit on this site.

                        maradnu
                        May 5, 2017, 11:19 am

                        darkyr - no one is forcing you to comment - or to read the comments of others.

                        LLapp
                        June 12, 2017, 5:34 am

                        Not loneliness; it's an introvert's dream party -- interesting company and yet no need to leave home, make small talk, or even speak audibly. (And bansais, great pun!!)

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                        • "Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
                          — Benjamin Jowett

                          bansaisequoia
                          May 26, 2012, 6:44 pm
                          Dodge Logics are Ram Tough.

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                          • "The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
                            — Bill Gates

                            bansaisequoia
                            February 3, 2012, 7:59 pm
                            Bill Gates isn't the global village idiot. He's the town square.

                            spellbinder
                            August 4, 2012, 1:34 pm

                            make that town "squire " ?

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                            • "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
                              — H. G. Wells

                              bansaisequoia
                              October 5, 2012, 7:23 pm
                              If someone roofies my beer, they've altered my draft.

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                              • "In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends."

                                — George John Whyte-Melville

                                bansaisequoia
                                September 7, 2009, 9:09 pm
                                I don't know. I think I'd ask my friends' advice about that horse.

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