Things that Bansai left for us

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"My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff. "
— Theodore Roosevelt

pootie49
November 3, 2009, 4:58 pm
Not a pretty mental image.
bansaisequoia
December 29, 2011, 5:12 pm
TMI Too much image

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"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."
— Tom Stoppard

bansaisequoia
June 4, 2013, 9:12 pm
And if a newspaper is named, "The Mirror," you know it's a pack of lies.

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"Power always has to be kept in check - power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
— William Proxmire

bansaisequoia
September 12, 2010, 4:33 am
I saw this Senator deliver a commencement address at my university.

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"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. "
— Zig Ziglar

bansaisequoia
October 4, 2012, 10:45 pm
High heels and platform shoes don't work well, either. Not to mention, stilts, chaps and ten-gallon hats, papal regalia and fake Sumo Halloween costumes. Zig Ziglar just had a loin cloth and a Bowie knife in his teeth.

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"It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister."
— Abigail Van Buren

bansaisequoia
May 22, 2009, 3:44 pm
I heard her twin sister was an only child.
Glyndia
June 14, 2019, 8:52 pm
I was born in the state of Confusion.

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"It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister."
— Abigail Van Buren

bansaisequoia
June 5, 2009, 7:58 pm
I heard her twin sister was an only child.

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"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts "
— Unattributed

maradnu
February 27, 2009, 12:21 am
Sometimes this is true, but not always. In business a merger is often less than the sum of the companies that went into it.
bansaisequoia
May 11, 2010, 4:44 pm
Synergy.

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"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
— Henry David Thoreau

bansaisequoia
May 27, 2014, 9:54 am
The world is turning around on its axis regardless of my beliefs.

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"I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie."
— Glenn Beck

bansaisequoia
March 28, 2013, 10:42 pm
Is everyone aware that Glenn used to point a gun at his head and contemplate suicide while listening to the music of Kurt Cobain? Were you aware that he says he got high every day for 15 years straight?

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"Be who you really are, not who you allowed yourself to become."
— Glenn Beck

bansaisequoia
September 24, 2013, 8:09 am
I liked him better when he got high every day for fifteen years and listened to Nirvana with a gun pointed to his head contemplating suicide.

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"You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction. "
— Norman Vincent Peale

PianoManGidley
December 3, 2010, 12:19 am
"...Just buy my guide on health and wealth today!"
pootie49
June 21, 2011, 5:39 pm
um? how??
montyb
April 9, 2012, 8:39 pm
Just call the number on your screen and have your credit card ready. Operators are standing by.
bansaisequoia
June 8, 2012, 2:35 am
Act now and we'll throw in the Ab Rocket Twister with workout DVD--absolutely free!!!

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"A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

bansaisequoia
May 20, 2010, 1:12 am
Now that I am pushing fifty, I realize that my sensual and intemperate youth hasn't weathered me too badly.

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"Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. "
— Sir Philip Sidney

bansaisequoia
May 19, 2012, 4:53 pm
Now that I'm in my 50s, I no longer have my forty 'tude. But I'm no chicken salad.

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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
— H. G. Wells

bansaisequoia
May 23, 2009, 8:03 pm
As I am approaching fifty, and have not yet learned to drive, I know that Wells would have been well pleased with me.

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"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. "
— George Santayana

bansaisequoia
July 14, 2009, 12:33 am
Chaos is order?

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"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."
— Kerry Thornley

montyb
July 7, 2012, 1:25 pm
Kaos? Then get Smart.
bansaisequoia
July 11, 2012, 6:08 pm
Then we'd be in CONTROL.

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"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
— Bertrand Russell

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 12:13 am
(link) [ Updated link: http://web.archive.org/web/201012051...ages/Elvis.jpg ]

bansaisequoia
January 30, 2012, 11:16 pm
(link) [ Updated link: http://web.archive.org/web/200611110...vis%20Fans.jpg ]

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"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."
— Woody Allen

bansaisequoia
October 30, 2012, 9:22 pm
This is a line from Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).

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"Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
September 11, 2009, 1:23 am
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer."--One of the trolls, either Tom, Bert or William

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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
— Isaac Asimov

bansaisequoia
August 27, 2009, 12:24 am
Carl Sagan once referred to Isaac Asimov as "the great explainer of our age," meaning that he was able to write books on the sciences in plain language, accessible to the layperson.