Things that Bansai left for us

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"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
— Fritz Perls

bansaisequoia
January 3, 2010, 8:23 pm
I think if I expected the world to live up to my expectations, I'd find even greater disappointment.

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"I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true."
— Debi Thomas

pootie49
January 8, 2010, 4:50 pm
Was she the figure skater? And did she finish med school?
bansaisequoia
January 11, 2010, 11:25 pm
In June 2005, Thomas graduated from the Orthopaedic Residency Program at Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles.

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"Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
June 12, 2010, 2:30 am
I'd rather be a mule.

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"An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

bansaisequoia
March 25, 2013, 5:18 pm
So if I go to bars and try to seduce women, I'm doing a good deed!

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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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"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny - the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets."
— Edward Abbey

pootie49
March 10, 2009, 12:20 am
hey my friend is a gov't clerk
bansaisequoia
December 24, 2009, 5:51 pm
My friend has an electromechanical gadget.

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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. "
— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

bansaisequoia
November 4, 2011, 8:04 am
"One of these days, Kasturba! Straight to the moon!"
montyb
March 15, 2012, 7:05 pm
His wife's name was Kasturbai. She and Mohandas were married at the age of thirteen. according to biographer Louis Fischer.

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"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?"
— Michael Torke

bansaisequoia
December 30, 2012, 7:49 pm
Wow, this is one of the hippest, most abstruse quote sources on this site. I have all of Michael Torke's CDs!

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"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
— Jackie Onassis

bansaisequoia
April 19, 2010, 6:35 pm
Silly girl, take them off first!

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"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally."
— W. C. Fields

bansaisequoia
March 28, 2010, 1:50 am
This quote has a similarity to something said by a US Marine Drill Instructor in the film "Full Metal Jacket." Because I like to keep the integrity of cryptograms.org, I will not copy and paste that quote here.
bansaisequoia
March 18, 2011, 5:34 am
In "Full Metal Jacket," Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann says, "In my eyes, you are all equally worthless."

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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

bonsaisequoia
February 10, 2010, 2:45 pm
"Here you are all equally worthless."--Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann in Full Metal Jacket

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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J. R. R. Tolkien

bansaisequoia
May 14, 2012, 6:03 pm
That's what I wanna say on MY eleventy-first birthday.
montyb
July 21, 2012, 4:22 pm
What a coincidence! Bansai and I were just discussing Tolkien on the chat box today.

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"All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "
— Gore Vidal

5.

bonsaisekoia

February 19, 2010

9 seconds

18.

bansaisequoia

August 3, 2013

16 seconds

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"Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. "
— Bertrand Russell

bonsaisequoia
July 31, 2009, 2:35 pm
So they have a hideous beauty.

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"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

bansaisequoia
May 21, 2012, 7:19 pm
I heard he danced with angels on pinheads.

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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. "
— Oscar Wilde

bansaisequoia
October 8, 2009, 9:56 pm
But it was James Joyce who wrote Portrait of the Artist.