Things that Bansai left for us

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"Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry. "
— Unattributed

fredsevent
January 27, 2012, 8:09 am
Non-sense.
bansaisequoia
October 3, 2013, 9:15 am
Bush-wah.

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"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
— Abraham Lincoln

LiveLoveLaugh
October 25, 2009, 8:14 pm
sounds more like Mae West
bansaisequoia
December 4, 2009, 5:19 pm
Not quite. She didn't think in terms of years. "It's not the men in my life that counts -- it's the life in my men."--Mae West
Lurker
July 7, 2010, 11:23 pm
She was possibly misquoting Lincoln on purpose.

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"The moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children, the elderly, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
— Hubert H. Humphrey

bonsaisequoia
February 5, 2010, 10:11 pm
Are you paying attention, Scott Brown?

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"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
— Alexander Smith

bansaisequoia
August 3, 2014, 1:00 pm
Incubi and Succubi?

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"We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement."
— Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

locodad
April 7, 2014, 1:27 am
he sounds familiar, I am kidding
bansaisequoia
June 5, 2014, 3:00 pm
Oh, great. Locodad is making fun of my former fraternity brother WHO HAPPENS TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN LONDON. Incidentally, HIS PARENTS MET IN NEW YORK CITY! Real class act you are, locodad, making fun of English-speaking Sufists. (just kidding--he was never my fraternity brother and his name duz sound kinda funny--but check his wikipedia entry forrealz) (link)
gryhnd51
August 30, 2020, 3:26 am
So many years later and still Joseph (aka bansaisequoia ) still makes me laugh with joy at his wit.

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"Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. "
— Joseph A. Schumpeter

bansaisequoia
October 25, 2011, 5:11 pm
Hmmm... did capitalism inevitably create "Occupy Wall Street"?

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"If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!"
— Dr. Seuss

bansaisequoia
July 12, 2010, 12:57 am
Who can remember from which book this quote came?
haverwench
October 4, 2010, 9:25 pm
This site ((link) attributes it to _One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish._

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"We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. "
— H.L. Mencken

bansaisequoia
October 31, 2009, 7:04 pm
So freedom is not free?

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"In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also."
— Robert Brault

iltquilt
July 4, 2012, 2:28 pm
Except that science is based on verifiable facts and religious beliefs are not. As for me, I do not accept anything based on insufficient evidence.
montyb
August 9, 2012, 6:10 pm
Well said. iltquilt. Brault commits the error of using the same definition of "belief" in two different contexts. Religious belief is acceptance without proof, whereas scientific belief denotes sufficient confidence in the supporting evidence to accept as the best explanation at this time.
bansaisequoia
October 27, 2012, 2:26 am
If there were a god(dess) who expected us to accept her/his beliefs, why would such a deity believe that s/he would need to hide to her/his presence from all of humanity? Why not reveal her/his self to everyone on Planet Earth so that all religious differences would be resolved? Why not tell all the planet that "I am the god(dess) of all people on the planet? Why would s/he refuse to reveal his/her self?

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"Just like a forming rainbow, just like the stars in the sky, life should never feel small."
— Colin Vearncombe

bansaisequoia
December 6, 2012, 8:11 pm
Where are these falling rainbows?
Spenser
November 24, 2014, 3:09 am
Falling rainbow?
dovid1946
December 21, 2014, 3:59 am
something must be lost in translation
LLapp
June 25, 2015, 8:51 pm
ERRORS: Replace "the falling" with "a forming" / Replace both "..."s with commas / Give full name of author -- "Colin Vearncombe". Should be: Just like a forming rainbow, just like the stars in the sky, life should never feel small. - Colin Vearncombe To verify lyric: (link) To verify correct name: (link)

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"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "
— Ayn Rand

bansaisequoia
September 5, 2010, 4:06 pm
"Atlas Shrugged" is one of the worst books I never finished.

[opallady]

"That's the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust."
— James Lileks

bansaisequoia
June 24, 2009, 11:26 pm
So why did Darth Vader have to wear that protective helmet?
opallady
November 7, 2009, 8:41 pm
because he was badly burned on that ridiculously improbable volcano planet.
Lurker
January 1, 2011, 10:53 pm
Don't blame that on Episode III. The circumstances of Anakin's change was written thirty years ago.
kb77
August 19, 2011, 1:59 pm
ahh. i still love the original star wars. plus i think the mask breathed for him plus covering the face. really almost the only science fiction i truly loved over the years.

bansaisequoia
December 4, 2012, 6:24 pm
Maybe Disney will bring back the magic, without all this pretentious Imperial Senate and Trade Federation crap. And no Jar Jar BInks. Unless he's a wall trophy with his tongue hanging out.

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"Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety."
— Henry H. Tweedy

bansaisequoia
June 21, 2013, 1:38 am
That's a real gender bender.

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"It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption."
— Edward Bunyard

bananasequoia
January 3, 2019, 11:19 am
I like a nice crisp Bosc pear.

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"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. "
— Hubert H. Humphrey

pootie49
March 10, 2009, 11:14 pm
I would like to see one quote that says successful women in it
bansaisequoia
June 7, 2010, 8:31 pm
They'd write one, but the father-in-law is so open-minded, his daughter-in-law's success would come as no surprise to him.
wvwoman
February 4, 2014, 5:02 am
very clever, bansai!
universalmom
May 25, 2014, 2:48 pm
Hugs to bansai!