Things that Bansai left for us

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"I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps."
— Benito Perez Galdos

bansaisequoia
January 8, 2010, 6:53 pm
But you're only six feet under.

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"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence."
— Art Linkletter

bansaisequoia
June 22, 2010, 4:05 pm
We go from adolescence to obsolescence? Speak for yourself, Linkletter.

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"You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you."
— Dylan Thomas

bansaisequoia
October 30, 2012, 4:13 pm
Wow. He's really confused about my gender. Come to think of it, he's never kissed me.

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"We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make fourteen million or fifteen million. You just don't see us."
— Michael Kamen

bansaisequoia
September 17, 2010, 3:38 pm
He wrote the scores to "Mr Holland's Opus" and "X-Men."

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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
— Ben Franklin

bansaisequoia
September 29, 2009, 4:40 pm
Though I see over a hundred websites attributing this to Ben Franklin, I have to feel this is a misattribution. It seems too simply worded to be the work of Benny the Frank, plus, as galpin points out, "the pursuit of happiness" comes from the Declaration of Independence. I think it's something that spread like wildfire, like the Maurice Jarre quote hoax. Several newspapers around the world printed the quote, but Wikipedia was the first to pick up on its invalidity. (link)
pootie49
July 3, 2011, 12:15 pm
Maybe it was an off hand comment, Bansai. Or all the eth's were removed? It does seem somewhat pedestrian for a bf quote though.

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"I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible. "
— Joseph de Maistre

maradnu
March 5, 2009, 1:31 am
Just because his heart is horrible does not mean that the heart of every 'honest' man is.
bansaisequoia
September 17, 2009, 9:48 pm
What makes you think he views himself as an honest man?
maradnu
July 27, 2011, 1:16 am
If he viewed himself as a rascal, he would know what was in a rascal's heart.

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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. "
— Rudyard Kipling

bansaisequoia
January 1, 2011, 1:11 am
I guess.

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"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
— Harriet Van Horne

bansaisequoia
June 4, 2010, 1:26 pm
Have you ever cooked with reckless abandon?
mazereeuw
January 10, 2013, 4:34 pm
Give me the careful predetermination of a crockpot any day.
joed
April 22, 2013, 11:05 am
But have you ever cheated on your entree with some cheap side dish?

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"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. "
— Robert South

bansaisequoia
May 26, 2009, 11:05 pm
Can one come to expect the unexpected?

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"Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime."
— Paul Williams

universalmom
April 23, 2012, 12:36 am
As a Democrat married to a Republican, I love this one!
bansaisequoia
June 22, 2012, 8:16 pm
You're like James Carville & Mary Matalin!

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"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic."
— David Russell

bansaisequoia
March 2, 2012, 7:57 pm
That's a step up from a Brobdingnagian world of Kafkaesque circumstances ruled by Orwellian institutions.

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"There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
May 19, 2012, 1:18 am
Promisers are pro misers.

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"When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue. "
— Don Marquis

bansaisequoia
March 10, 2010, 6:26 pm
Too late. I lost mine years ago.

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"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
— Jorge Luis Borges

bansaisequoia
January 5, 2011, 9:57 pm
A very profound writer, but I don't think that could be nailed down to a single, epiphanic moment, except by the few. For me, it is an ongoing process.

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"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. "
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

bansaisequoia
June 30, 2009, 10:33 pm
I'm not going to go into the ring with Wittgenstein.