Things that Bansai left for us

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"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately. "
— Henry Kissinger

bansaisequoia
August 29, 2009, 11:59 pm
Odd that this was said by a man who served under the president who gave us Watergate.

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"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million."
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

bansaisequoia
June 15, 2011, 5:44 am
And you weren't happier when you cheated on a beautiful wife like Maria Shriver, With a so-so looking housekeeper no less. Typical Republican.

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"I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too."
— Robert Brault

bansaisequoia
May 11, 2012, 4:28 am
And wipe the slobber off of it 399 times.

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"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. "
— Peter Ustinov

bansaisequoia
July 14, 2009, 9:44 pm
Ya-owtch! Take that, George C Scott & Marlon Brando!

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"There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize."
— Robert Brault

bansaisequoia
January 10, 2012, 1:41 am
I haven't created a restore point, and I've never regretted it.

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"How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?"
— Charles de Gaulle

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bonsaisequoia

February 8, 2010

15 seconds

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bansaisequoia

July 7, 2013

23 seconds

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"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. "
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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bonsaisequoia

February 5, 2010

9 seconds

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bansaisequoia

April 16, 2011

10 seconds

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"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. "
— Niccolo Machiavelli

pootie49
March 28, 2009, 4:19 pm
I vote for loved
Altoid701
July 30, 2009, 1:55 pm
I vote for love as well.
LiveLoveLaugh
August 14, 2009, 11:51 pm
I want both
bansaisequoia
September 12, 2009, 1:23 am
Call 1-866-IDOLS-01 to cast your vote.

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"The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out."
— Annie Dillard

bansaisequoia
August 21, 2012, 3:01 pm
The sea is a hoarse whisperer?

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"In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. "
— Pliny the Elder

bansaisequoia
December 30, 2016, 10:15 am
If nothing is certain, that statement "There is nothing certain," is not a certainty. Those koo-koo, nutty philosophers!

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"There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. "
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

bansaisequoia
January 5, 2011, 8:03 pm
His most famous work, after all, is about a doctor who sells his soul to Mephistopheles.

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"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter."
— Gordon William Allport

bansaisequoia
March 3, 2010, 9:10 pm
Ah, the mirthful sword of laughter!

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"If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again."
— Bill O'Reilly

pootie49
August 14, 2011, 7:00 pm
um i dont recall an apology???
bansaisequoia
June 27, 2013, 4:38 am
We haven't invaded nations that have brutal leaders if they don't have oil. Notice, in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, he calls North Korea Axis of Evil? They have had nukes for 7 years, they test fire missiles that have a farther range than those Iraqi Scud Missiles, they point them in the direction of Hawaii when they're test fired, and the UN acknowledges this. No invasion of North Korea because there's no oil.

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"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. "
— Charles Dickens

bansaisequoia
April 18, 2009, 7:31 pm
Do Skype and webcams have him rolling over in his grave?

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"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."
— Charles Dickens

Lurker
October 29, 2009, 2:06 pm
Ain't, from Dickens?
bansaisequoia
November 13, 2009, 6:09 pm
Maybe this quote ain't from Dickens.
matarisa
April 14, 2011, 2:31 pm
It's an old word, and Dickens had no trouble assigning typical language to his characters.

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"It's really the cat's house - we just pay the mortgage."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
January 7, 2013, 4:56 am
So you live in a cat house?

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"We need tough days to drive us to our knees. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
November 1, 2009, 11:14 pm
Why ever would I need that?
gryhnd51
July 29, 2012, 11:57 pm
Could this mean that tough days make us pray?