Things that Bansai left for us

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"There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery."
— Dante Alighieri

banzaisequoia
January 30, 2010, 12:29 am
This was said by Francesca da Rimini in The Divine Comedy.

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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
— Mark Twain

bansaisequoia
July 3, 2013, 5:21 pm
My Aunt Polly wants me to whitewash this fence a partic'lar way.

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"Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
August 6, 2009, 2:11 am
Hah, hah, hah! I find this very disquieting.

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"When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind - the highest End."
— Maitrayaniya Upanishad

bansaisequoia
May 27, 2013, 10:25 pm
Spelling Error: Upanishad [Note: There was an error in the original quote that has since been fixed.]

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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
— Abraham Maslow

[Note: Top comment is missing.]
bansaisequoia
August 13, 2009, 11:08 pm
By going slower than someone who solves it in 13 seconds.
pootie49
July 5, 2011, 4:59 pm
same way you get to carnegie hall...practice practice practice.
Lurker
June 6, 2012, 11:43 pm
By seeing this quote enough times that you know it after the first few letters and can solve it in 11 seconds.
LLapp
July 15, 2019, 3:19 am
And for the final Jeopardy, the question was: "How can anyone solve this quote in 11 seconds??!?!?!" (Right?)
abra
September 24, 2021, 2:10 am
Right, LLapp, but I guess it disappeared. Or maybe it wasn't worded in the form of a friendly question.

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"Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians."
— Franklin P. Jones

bansaisequoia
December 20, 2009, 2:43 pm
From Herodotus to Howard Zinn.

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"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyer's document, it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age."
— Nadia Boulanger

bansaisequoia
August 15, 2010, 11:36 pm
This quote was actually said by Woodrow Wilson. I found it hard to believe that this would be said by a French musicologist, so I searched to find the real author. Follow this URL: (link)

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"What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read."
— Gilbert Chesterton

bansaisequoia
April 22, 2010, 8:40 pm
What if he'd lived to see the Jumbotron in Times Square?

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"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine."
— Homer Simpson

bansaisequoia
March 20, 2012, 5:29 pm
You couldn't fool the broad side of a barn. You couldn't fool your way out of a paper bag.

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"The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting."
— Amanda Cross

bansaisequoia
April 18, 2017, 3:36 pm
The author of the quote is "A man to cross."

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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak. "
— Socrates

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2009, 8:02 pm
But why did nature give us so many vocal cords?

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"When literature becomes too intellectual it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

bansaisequoia
October 16, 2009, 7:22 pm
Probably not a fan of James Joyce or Thomas Pynchon.

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"I'm in therapy and sewing is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
March 2, 2012, 4:59 pm
I'm in therapy and needlepoint is cheaper than an acupuncturist.

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"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. "
— Earl Warren

bansaisequoia
April 27, 2011, 4:52 am
I am frequently pleased by the accomplishments recorded in the New York Times' Tuesday Science Supplement, and by the the accomplishments of persons in the arts and music in other sections of the paper. Alas, only tragic things seem to make the front page.

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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
— Igor Stravinsky

bansaisequoia
July 14, 2009, 11:12 pm
What is ironic about this, is that his most raucous, harsh, dissonant piece of music, "The Rite of Spring," was used during the dinosaur sequence of the 1941 Walt Disney production, "Fantasia." Children and animals, indeed.