Things that Bansai left for us

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"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. "
— Katherine Mansfield

bansaisequoia
May 26, 2011, 1:36 pm
Take our failures seriously by laughing at ourselves?
cradle0fmexicans
June 6, 2012, 7:38 am
apples and oranges. this quote makes no sense.
LLapp
June 28, 2015, 1:58 pm
Hey, she died at age 34. She might have fixed it if she'd had time.

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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
— Albert Einstein

Lurker
September 24, 2009, 10:14 pm
Bush & Cheney must have been listening.
bansaisequoia
October 7, 2009, 10:30 pm
Ten stars for your comment, Lurker!

[Toeprint]

"Consider your origin: you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
— Dante Alighieri

bansaisequoia
December 13, 2009, 8:03 pm
The Origin of Species?

[Toeprint]

"If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement."
— Jerry Coleman

bansaisequoia
September 11, 2010, 3:54 am
Actually, they indicted him and put him in prison for five months.

[Toeprint]

"Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans."
— Martin H. Fischer

bansaisequoia
February 24, 2013, 9:34 pm
My pickles come in jars and my burritos from plastic wrappers.

[Toeprint]

"The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself. "
— Thomas a Kempis

bansaisequoia
June 16, 2009, 11:58 pm
Outstanding! I don't want to be narcissistic!

[Toeprint]

"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth. The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker."
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

bansaisequoia
March 11, 2009, 3:29 pm
It's interesting to note that Bulwer-Lytton was the one who penned, "It was a dark and stormy night," and not Snoopy. In fact, because his writing was so prosaic, there's an award named for him that is given to the worst examples of fiction. (link)

[Toeprint]

"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. "
— William Penn

bansaisequoia
December 23, 2009, 10:04 pm
"Unbosoms?" I think it's that procedure Punky Brewster had.

[Toeprint]

"I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends."
— Nancie J. Carmody

pootie49
August 12, 2011, 3:08 pm
wow now thats a positive attitude. however if they were your friends wouldnt they be there helping to clean wif you???
bansaisequoia
September 28, 2012, 7:15 pm
Kegger at Nancie's, everybody!

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"The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion."
— Woody Allen

bansaisequoia
March 19, 2011, 5:01 am
Or does he mean fish or crustacean eggs?
pootie49
April 24, 2011, 12:40 pm
ackchewerally he made that word up.
bansaisequoia
March 1, 2012, 6:21 pm
Maybe he misspelled roc? Or orc?

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"I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party."
— Dennis Miller

bansaisequoia
June 3, 2014, 5:08 pm
Where are the Communists partying??? Par-tay!

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"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody."
— Stanislaw J. Lec

bansaisequoia
March 12, 2010, 6:02 pm
At first I thought this was a misspelling of Stanislaw Lem, but it turns out there's a Stanislaw Lec, too.

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"Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. "
— Logan Pearsall Smith

bansaisequoia
June 14, 2012, 4:05 pm
I do not. (jk!)

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"Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
January 3, 2011, 4:21 am
Few are self-made persons, and only the successful pretend to it.

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"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

bansaisequoia
October 11, 2012, 6:23 pm
Our specials tonight include a Portobello Toadstool Flambé with a Rack of Spam. Would you care for a fresh glass of Milkweed Nectar?