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"Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children."
— Judith Pugh
bansaisequoia
March 26, 2011, 3:36 am
That seems kind of bi-polar.
— Judith Pugh
bansaisequoia
March 26, 2011, 3:36 am
That seems kind of bi-polar.
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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
— Dwight Eisenhower
eoerikson3
May 5, 2009, 8:04 am
Too many people on the planet that are complacent with the feeling that you can't fight city hall will prevent the revolution that is needed. The government is too big to fight now.
bansaisequoia
June 21, 2009, 1:23 am
They are not complacent with a feeling that you can't fight City Hall; they are sullenly resigned. The money and power to influence the masses always seems to go to the wrong people.Comment
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"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money."
— Arthur Godfrey
bansaisequoia
October 20, 2012, 6:23 pm
Mitt Romney is proud to be paying half the money. And that's just in the one year he's revealed.Comment
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"I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful."
— Unattributed
bansaisequoia
September 4, 2011, 9:10 pm
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. "
— John Updike
bansaisequoia
December 3, 2011, 7:41 pm
John Updike's middle name was his mother's maiden name. His mother was a Hoyer.Comment
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"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
— Pierre Elliott Trudeau
nelnose
October 11, 2010, 8:19 pm
Here comes the Tea party.
bansaisequoia
March 7, 2011, 8:43 pm
And the Tea Party is hosted by a Mad Hatter.Comment
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"I say on the air all the time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot.""
— Glenn Beck
bansaisequoia
March 29, 2011, 8:54 pm
That's the most clever quote I've ever seen from him.Comment
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"Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage."
— Unattributed
montyb
June 15, 2012, 12:53 am
But I'd have the coolest garage in the world!
bansaisequoia
July 4, 2012, 7:26 pm
Not as cool as my Hieronymus Bosch garage.Comment
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"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. "
— Wayne Dyer
bansaisequoia
January 25, 2010, 7:46 pm
...minus the unpredictable stumbling blocks that have been strewn along our path.Comment
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"Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
bansaisequoia
September 4, 2009, 1:26 am
I hate people and love humanity.Comment
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"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "
— George Orwell
bansaisequoia
February 3, 2010, 7:34 pm
This ode is not for shirkers,But earthly common workers, What bliss it is to be on, The level of a peon.Comment
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"Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. "
— Unattributed
abra
August 18, 2015, 8:16 am
When I was a newbie, here, I had this quote and asked for help on the chat box. I was pulling my hair out. Bansai, gave me the answer. I felt pretty silly, but I just couldn't come up with it. It must not be THAT hard almost a third of the people can get it. Funny, after all these years, I don't think I've had this one again, but I remembered BRILLIANCY.Comment
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"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
— Frank Dane
opallady
August 18, 2009, 12:29 pm
That certainly explains a lot.
bansaisequoia
September 17, 2009, 1:46 am
Even the Yoknapatawpha County Dog Catcher???Comment
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"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life."
— William A. Ward
bansaisequoia
May 4, 2010, 5:03 pm
Yeah, I'm definitely Dennis Miller on the tightrope over the abyss as Zarathustra looks on.Comment
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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. "
— Martin Luther King Jr.
kat
April 5, 2009, 4:42 pm
But is it sinking?
bansaisequoia
March 26, 2010, 10:46 pm
Half of us are doing the bailing, but the other half seem to want to scuttle it.Comment
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