Things that Bansai left for us

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"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. "
— Edmund Burke

bonsaisekuoia
February 24, 2010, 9:57 pm
I have to feel this is misquoted or misattributed. By dictionary definition, "whence" means "FROM where," not "where." Saying "from whence" is a redundancy. I find it hard to believe that an erudite man of 3 centuries gone by would have made this mistake. (link)
bonsaisekuoia
February 24, 2010, 9:58 pm
I have to feel this is misquoted or misattributed. By dictionary definition, "whence" means "FROM where," not "where." Saying "from whence" is a redundancy. I find it hard to believe that an erudite man of 3 centuries gone by would have made this mistake. (link)

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"I take it to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. "
— Terence

pootie49
April 10, 2009, 7:58 pm
Good rule
bansaisequoia
September 6, 2009, 10:20 pm
(link) [Dead link leads to a postcard of Do Re Mi beer posted on a pub's webpage.]

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"Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
February 13, 2011, 4:54 am
To attain happiness, I could do without work to do.

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"Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. "
— Charles Dickens

bansaisequoia
July 19, 2009, 10:00 pm
Business has a soul?

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"They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
— Benjamin Franklin

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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. "
— Daniel Webster

bansaisequoia
May 31, 2009, 12:43 am
It's interesting to note that this is a sentiment also felt by today's anthropologists. When people were hunter/gatherers, they were more or less nomadic and didn't need to put down roots anywhere. But the development of agriculture changed everything. Once the grain was sown, homesteads needed to be put down. You needed to stay where the grain was sown until it could be harvested. This was when humans first formed stable communities.

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"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. "
— George Washington

bansaisequoia
November 25, 2009, 5:22 am
What the $^&# does George Washington know about ?)%$ anyway?
kat
February 8, 2010, 4:16 pm
Goll ding it! I was gonna say the same f*ck*ng thing Bansai!
pootie49
May 14, 2011, 10:26 am
i be foolish and wicked Kat...well f**k that eh?

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"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."
— Horace

bansaisequoia
August 4, 2009, 11:53 pm
And to some it seems to grant nothing but slavery and bondage for the well-being of the undeserving.

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"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. "
— Henry James

Altoid701
January 5, 2010, 12:25 pm
rats, bats, cats...
bansaisequoia
March 4, 2012, 2:29 pm
monkeys, donkeys, honkeys...
darkyr
August 29, 2017, 10:41 am
cats and rats and monkeys, oh my!
bansaisequoia
December 2, 2017, 12:54 pm
Bions and ligers and tears, oh my!

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"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. "
— Lord Byron

bonsaisequoia
July 26, 2009, 7:21 pm
How would he know? He died at age 36.

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"What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. "
— A. W. Tozer

maradnu
March 8, 2009, 1:09 am
No. How you treat other human beings is the most important thing about you.
bansaisequoia
May 22, 2009, 8:44 pm
Well said, maradnu. I only wish I could give YOU ten stars for your statement.

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"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
— Clive James

bansaisequoia
October 6, 2009, 11:46 pm
Actually, seeing a crane and wrecking ball functioning properly kind of reminds me how powerful machines are, too.

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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
— Adam Smith

bansaisequoia
January 8, 2012, 6:36 pm
The Road From the City of Skepticism. Wasn't that a Hope/Crosby film?

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"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. "
— Gloria Leonard

bansaisequoia
September 4, 2009, 11:48 pm
Type faster.

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"Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
October 22, 2012, 2:41 pm
That explains all those Gary Larson comics