Things that Bansai left for us

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"If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out. "
— Ross Perot

bansaisequoia
July 2, 2009, 8:11 pm
Of course, this was said by a billionaire. Yeah, right. I'm totally inspired.

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"Avarice is the sphincter of the heart."
— Matthew Green

bansaisequoia
May 11, 2011, 2:20 am
Did you know that your body has over 50 different sphincters?

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"Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played the girl bunny?"
— Garth

bansaisequoia
July 10, 2010, 5:00 pm
His full name is Garth Algar. I say this so that no one will confuse him with Garth of Izar from Star Trek: The Original Series.
bansaisequoia
January 8, 2011, 6:10 pm
(expressing high nerd quotient)
bansaisequoia
November 9, 2012, 12:23 pm
(very memorable Trekisode--Yvonne Craig plays a hot Orion Slave Girl)

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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. "
— Theodore Roosevelt

bansaisequoia
September 19, 2009, 1:33 am
This man won a Nobel Peace Prize.

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"There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
January 19, 2010, 2:31 am
But it never destroys them. Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart continued to rake in million.

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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. "
— Mark Twain

bansaisequoia
June 8, 2010, 4:56 pm
I cling to my illusions. Just ask my imaginary friends.
cheryljean777
December 17, 2010, 9:17 pm
Do your imaginary friends help you with these cryptograms? Your scores amaze me.

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"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
— Fred Thompson

bansaisequoia
July 31, 2012, 6:33 pm
Hey, have you gotten your reverse mortgage from AAG yet? Take it from Fred, rich moneylenders are here to help the economy!

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"The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone."
— Roger Ebert [originally misattributed to Henry Adams]

bansaisequoia
July 8, 2011, 11:25 pm
A guy who died in 1918 recommending date movies? Definitely misattributed. Or at least a different Henry Adams.
abra
November 12, 2011, 4:50 am
That's what I thought too.
montyb
June 17, 2012, 4:46 pm
Perhaps he was a futurist.
Barnabas
July 21, 2012, 10:42 pm
Even in 1918 they (the movie theaters) had a zero tolerance policy for cell phones.
bansaisequoia
July 31, 2012, 6:57 pm
That was so annoying! I could barely here the piano player with those people talking, and it ruined my experience of Theda Bara and Thelma Todd.

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"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. "
— Thomas Wolfe

bansaisequoia
April 6, 2011, 6:52 am
Thought provoking, but I think I read books to discover. I'm not sure I'd need to read an entire book to jog my memory. If you've actually read a number of books, I think a new book could only give you a few more thoughts to ponder. If you read a book with exclusively new and foreign ideas, would it have an impact on you, or would it overwhelm you with too many new paradigms which your life and observational experiences might seem to contradict?

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"When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! "
— William Blake

1.

bansaisequoia

January 16, 2011

10 seconds

7.

impededredwood

October 19, 2008

26 seconds

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"The loss which is unknown is no loss at all."
— Publilius Syrus

bansaisequoia
July 12, 2010, 10:05 pm
What if you lose your sanity and don't know it?
samson
March 20, 2011, 4:08 pm
Sanity is a relative, based on social norms...
pootie49
May 9, 2011, 12:12 am
what if bansai loses his sanity and doesnt know it? does it make a sound? hows that for social norms. I know a social norm, guy from Cheers.

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"I think the harder you work, the more luck you have. "
— Dave Thomas

bansaisequoia
July 19, 2009, 8:42 pm
Is this the founder of Wendy's?

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"The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated. "
— Douglas Horton

bansaisequoia
May 23, 2010, 4:58 am
Not even if I take to Home Depot?

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"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."
— Thomas Fuller

bansaisequoia
April 19, 2010, 12:06 am
And if you get drunk and fall off a cruise ship, they're working in tandem.

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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
— Pablo Picasso

bansaisequoia
September 23, 2012, 6:37 pm
To copy oneself can lead to plagiarism.