Things that Bansai left for us

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"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
— Vincent Canby

LiveLoveLaugh
April 30, 2010, 11:12 pm
but didn't they change the academy awards to March?
bansaisequoia
May 25, 2010, 4:23 pm
Maybe he means the Earth Day coverage on Animal Planet.

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"Necessity is the mother of all invention."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
March 13, 2011, 3:20 am
Nonsense. Just ask Steve Jobs about all the gadgets that have been created by his corporation that won't even process food. And even within that realm, Cro-Magnon man made it through without the George Foreman Grill, the Kitchen Magician, or Popeil's Pocket Fisherman.

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"Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once."
— Isaac Asimov

bansaisequoia
July 11, 2013, 5:28 pm
I would join in, well, maybe once.

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"Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. "
— William Pitt

bansaisequoia
August 22, 2009, 12:12 am
I wonder if they would have put you in the stocks back then for saying "damned." In this context, he's just using it as a curse. He's not speaking of being condemned to hell.

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"Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
January 25, 2010, 7:22 pm
Ben Stiller was really taxed in "There's Something About Mary."

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"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. "
— David Viscott

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bansaisequoia
May 21, 2009, 11:35 pm
There is an error in your comment. You should have said "If there is an error in your solution, you cannot get to this frame." If I had a correct solution to an erroneous quote, I could have gotten here.
universalmom
June 4, 2012, 12:21 am
Maybe because an error in the quote makes it hard to solve?

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"The great artist is a slave to his ideals. "
— Christian Nestell Bovee

4.

bansaisequoia

September 7, 2011

6 seconds

montyb
April 29, 2015, 9:08 am
Wow! Tied my PR and was still 2.5 times Bansai's record. That man is phenomenal.
LLapp
March 25, 2019, 2:47 pm
Hey all you folks who insist there must be cheating, take a look at that Top Solvers box! I solved this one in 8 seconds, and I'm not even in the top five! IT CAN BE DONE. Practice, practice, practice. Never mind your job and your household bills.

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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. "
— Khalil Gibran

bansaisequoia
April 23, 2010, 8:18 pm
Sounds like the voice-over intro to a soap opera.

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"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms."
— Alan Coren

bansaisequoia
November 8, 2009, 5:52 pm
I have a television I bought for $60US, brand new in the box. If it were legal, I don't think I could afford to buy people to stand in the corners of my rooms.
bansaisequoia
July 10, 2012, 4:25 am
Update from my post of 3 years ago: I now have a 37 inch (93 cm) TV monitor I bought for $179US. This is just $26US more than a bottle of 30 pills I bought from the pharmacy this month. Capitalism without universal health care rules!

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"Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
February 26, 2012, 7:16 pm
Of course, that ranks them with exterminators and pool boys.
skeeter
June 30, 2015, 12:50 am
I remember when elementary school teachers used to make home visits. My mother was furious when the end-of-year report card arrived, and the home visit notes at the bottom said, "The mother shows little interest in this child."
franny+zooey
July 18, 2021, 10:24 am
Daughter of a firefighter here. Proud of my dad.

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"The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. "
— Sydney Smith

roxette
September 24, 2009, 7:22 am
whoever made this cryptograms site. I thank you for it! i love you!
bansaisequoia
October 22, 2009, 3:45 pm
Stephen made it. Do you truly love him?
slow1
March 26, 2014, 5:21 am
Stephen who?
wvwoman
May 5, 2014, 3:20 am
stephen the puzzle baron!
marnita
September 6, 2015, 1:38 pm
We all love the Puzzle Baron. He has enriched our lives.

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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. "
— Alfred North Whitehead

kat
June 15, 2009, 3:28 pm
Related Words for : tranquility placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquillity (I've always spelled it with one "l"
bansaisequoia
August 22, 2009, 2:02 am
(link)
pootie49
June 9, 2011, 1:27 pm
me too Kat.

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"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."
— Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2010, 4:04 pm
Hmmm... I still read comic books.
universalmom
February 25, 2012, 2:20 am
I love roller coasters and water slides!
montyb
May 12, 2012, 8:18 pm
I get on the floor and wreslte with my dog.
SippyGurl
June 2, 2014, 5:28 am
my teddy bear is sitting in the living room
marnita
June 25, 2015, 7:12 pm
I have a whole shelf of stuffed animals.
Lurker
August 9, 2015, 1:31 pm
I have a giant box of Legos and a working Atari.
LLapp
November 5, 2015, 12:33 pm
I have a bowl of finger puppets in the living room and a cow clock on the wall. (HA -- when the quote is about God or economics or government, you can see the dividing line run down the comments thread. But give us a quote about toys and we are one people.)
iltquilt
December 17, 2015, 1:25 pm
I still love to color.
momof7
January 25, 2017, 3:51 pm
I love children's books.
darkyr
August 27, 2017, 3:35 am
I make a point of running through the sprinklers each year.
kahvecowgirl
March 15, 2018, 10:04 am
It took me years to realize how immature the desire to be the smartest person in the room actually is. And I have a stuffed neuron on my bookshelf.
LLapp
September 2, 2018, 2:57 pm
A stuffed neuron? Does it have a name?
imported_phthelen
January 3, 2020, 3:21 am
I still can't resist making snow angels in the first snowfall; 'cept now i need help getting up.
Jrdad
April 21, 2021, 8:59 pm
I love the picture of Einstein sticking out his tongue at reporters

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"Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?"
— Martin H. Fischer

gryhnd51
November 2, 2011, 11:58 pm
A spirochete is what causes syphillis, as opposed to the "strep" bacteria
gryhnd51
January 5, 2012, 4:24 am
So what Mr Fischer is saying is that there is no difference between dying of syphillis or dying of a strep throat. Quite obviously, there IS a moral distinction.
bansaisequoia
April 2, 2012, 7:19 pm
If a pure man dies by the spirochete he acquired from his unfaithful wife, and a libertine dies by the streptococcus contracted during a bacchanal that would shame Nero, is there a moral grey area?

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"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

bansaisequoia
November 6, 2009, 8:29 pm
Too many want their dreams to be profits.