Things that Bansai left for us

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"What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it?"
— Jenny DeVries

bansaisequoia
July 6, 2012, 1:54 am
Nun whatsoever.

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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. "
— J. August Strindberg

opallady
May 19, 2009, 12:34 am
Eeyore lives.
bansaisequoia
September 10, 2009, 11:05 pm
forever

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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. "
— Plutarch

bansaisequoia
June 9, 2013, 5:24 pm
Who is this Plutarch guy, anyway?

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"My downfall raises me to infinite heights. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

bansaisequoia
March 30, 2012, 8:10 am
My ascent plunges me to abysmal depths.

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"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions... "
— W. Clement Stone

banszaisequaio
February 22, 2010, 3:22 pm
Why does this end with an ellipsis...?
Quizzical
April 3, 2014, 5:13 am
Because he said it sometime on September 3, 2002 , right before he...

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"I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. "
— Jean Rostand

bansaisequoia
December 7, 2010, 2:23 am
Well, that's good, because then they'd make a life sentence.

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"Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility. "
— Wayne Dyer

bansaisequoia
January 5, 2011, 9:46 pm
So, could Forrest Gump become a great cosmologist and astrophysicist? Could Stephen Hawking become a champion ping pong player?

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
— Matt Groening

bansaisequoia
August 1, 2012, 7:41 pm
Ice weasels I can deal with. What about the ice honey badgers?

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"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."
— Martin H. Fischer

bansaisequoia
September 11, 2012, 3:33 pm
"Save the livers!"--Dan Aykroyd

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"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
— Burt Bacharach

bansaisequoia
June 26, 2010, 3:25 am
Fortunately, Hal David was his lyricist.

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"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
— Kin Hubbard

fishbum
March 8, 2011, 7:08 pm
Boy, that's me.
bansaisequoia
March 13, 2011, 4:04 am
Boy, that's men.

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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

bansaisequoia
May 21, 2010, 8:53 pm
'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'

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"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. "
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

bansaisequoia
October 14, 2009, 7:44 pm
" Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."--Hippocrates "Art is long, life short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult."

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"Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game."
— Alan Moore

bansaisequoia
April 19, 2010, 7:18 pm
This comes from his graphic novel, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."

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"Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us. "
— Earl Nightingale

bansaisequoia
July 19, 2009, 8:52 pm
Why am I unmarried with no children?