Things that Bansai left for us

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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike are always dominated by fools."
— Harold Bloom

bansaisequoia
November 13, 2009, 6:05 pm
Spoken by a professor and author.

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"Two paradoxes are better than one - they may even suggest a solution."
— Edward Teller

bansaisequoia
June 24, 2009, 9:59 pm
Would we better off if Edward Teller had been a bank teller? Einstein once remarked that he should have been a plumber.

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"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. "
— Napoleon Hill

bansaisequoia
September 14, 2009, 8:35 pm
Which is why professional athletes, rock stars and film stars are the pinnacle of honesty and integrity. And don't even get me started on Bernard Madoff and Ivan Boesky.

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"Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas."
— Esa Tikkannen

bansaisequoia
August 10, 2012, 3:47 pm
I tell kids I work with that I can remember when 26 cents was every day low price. They don't believe I'm really that old.

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"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. "
— Will Rogers

bansaisequoia
February 8, 2013, 7:32 pm
Evidently not a fan of Cocteau or Eisenstein

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"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. "
— Sir Walter Scott

bansaisequoia
November 13, 2009, 11:13 pm
Escape me never.

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"It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
September 9, 2009, 12:32 am
How could this be accomplished? (link)

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"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
— Elayne Boosler

bonsaisequoia
July 28, 2009, 12:44 am
This comic's name is actually Elayne Boosler.
oldmandave
January 12, 2011, 12:05 am
not fair I got three phones calls and couldn't get back to this one till later..where's the hold button...LOL
bansaisequoia
March 23, 2012, 2:08 pm
If you can't solve the quote before you pick up the phone, you ain't gettin' a record time. You can always tell us you tied the record, and we'd never know the difference.

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"Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees."
— J. J. Fumas

Lurker
June 3, 2010, 1:40 pm
What about bansai sequoia trees?
LiveLoveLaugh
August 19, 2010, 12:32 pm
my question exactly?
maradnu
April 17, 2011, 12:07 am
How small of you to ask.
chopstix
October 21, 2012, 5:53 pm
I would've been very surprised if he didn't have the record time on this one.

bansaisequoia

October 22, 2012

15 seconds

gryhnd51
August 5, 2013, 5:10 am
all these years I've been playing, and I think this is the first time I've gotten this quote! Of COURSE, Bansai has the record! Kudos, Joseph.
bansaisequoia
January 11, 2017, 12:22 pm
Kudus to you, also! (link)
Persephone59
July 2, 2019, 11:28 pm
Abra, I followed the link, and bansai WAS making a reference about kudzu. And kudus (?). We don't have kudzu out here in Oregon. We have Himalayan blackberries instead!!! (Both plants were brought to this country by people who never gave a thought to how they would grow in a warmer, wetter environment). BTW, I never got this quote before, either.
Altoid701
April 25, 2020, 4:30 pm
RIP bansai
opallady
August 17, 2020, 3:58 pm
Alas, the low chemical trick was also played on bansaisequoia. RIP, Joseph.
maradnu
October 4, 2020, 10:59 pm
He was a good person and it sad to have lost him

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"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
February 6, 2012, 7:44 am
On the street or on the golf course.

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"Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken."
— Robert Brault

bansaisequoia
June 24, 2012, 9:13 am
If the road forks you can't go both ways. Unfortunately, many monetarily successful people seem to believe that because the coin toss came up in their favor, they are wicked brilliant.

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"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. "
— Malcolm X

bansaisequoia
March 10, 2010, 10:40 pm
Ladies, you can be a Freedom Fighter, too!

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"The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at."
— Anna Russell

bansaisequoia
May 22, 2009, 10:40 pm
Evidently men love being laughingstocks.
pootie49
June 7, 2009, 6:36 pm
I do not mind be laughed at especially if I were a comic.

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"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead. " — Jules Renard



bansaisequoia
September 30, 2009, 2:28 am
(link)

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"A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him."
— Henry Ward Beecher

bansaisequoia
May 31, 2011, 5:03 am
If Johann Wolfgang von Goethe looks like "Q" from "Star Trek," and if Samuel Johnson looks like a pouting "Penn Gillette," then Henry Ward Beecher looks like a starry-eyed zombie.