Things that Bansai left for us

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"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."
— A. P. Gouthey

bansaisequoia
January 30, 2011, 6:11 am
Hey, I fingerpainted some masterpieces in preschool.

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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. "
— Socrates

bansaisequoia
May 4, 2010, 4:44 pm
He was great in "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. "
— Will Rogers

bansaisequoia
November 9, 2009, 4:56 pm
Did I tell you I'm working on a screenplay?

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"'Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice."
— Anonymous

[There was an error in the quote which has since been corrected.]
bansaisequoia
June 11, 2009, 10:03 pm
This could use an apostrophe on the contraction.

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"Physics is imagination in a straight jacket."
— John Moffat

bansaisequoia
November 17, 2012, 7:18 pm
Unless he's making some joke I'm not getting, it should be "straitjacket ." I find it hard to believe a noted physicist with a PhD would blow this one.

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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. "
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

bansaisequoia
May 6, 2010, 4:04 am
"Like a true nature's child We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna die"--Dennis Edmonton aka Mars Bonfire (Another great Canadian)

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"Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour."
— Edward M. Kennedy

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 2:12 am
R.I.P.

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"Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
January 27, 2010, 7:39 pm
Throw a lucky cryptedian into the sewer, and he will come up with a record time in his mouth.

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"Don't wait to be happy to laugh. You may die and never have laughed."
— Jean de la Bruyere

bansaisequoia
March 31, 2012, 2:35 pm
Got you covered. I sometimes laugh hysterically out of frustration.

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"Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. "
— Theodore Roosevelt

bansaisequoia
October 13, 2009, 8:24 pm
Sounds better than UFC. It's bread and circuses time in America.

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"In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 13, 2009, 9:58 pm
When Hurricane Wilma passed through in 2005, a tree was downed a couple of blocks from my house. The root structure was so extensive, it lifted four slabs of sidewalk out of the ground. Fortunately, my house was untouched, though it did knock down most of the fences and the rafters of the pool screen.

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"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. "
— John D. Rockefeller

bansaisequoia
October 28, 2010, 3:24 am
This probably sounds really sweet when you control 90% of the world's oil reserves. "Standard Oil gradually gained almost complete control of oil refining and marketing in the United States... Its share of world oil refining topped out above 90% but slowly dropped to about 80% for the rest of the century."

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"I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient."
— Cyra McFadden

bansaisequoia
August 13, 2009, 8:58 pm
No Cosmopolitans. Just Vodka.

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"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
— Edwin Markham

bansaisequoia
July 28, 2012, 7:00 pm
Can you pass the soul shaker?

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"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
— J. K. Rowling

bansaisequoia
June 22, 2012, 4:12 pm
That is so muggly.