Things that Bansai left for us

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"Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave."
— Detroit Journal

bansaisequoia
October 28, 2014, 8:39 am
What a load of Bolshevik!
KittyKatMeow
May 19, 2020, 2:48 pm
Oh Bansai - you left us far too soon.

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"I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself. "
— Carl Sandburg

bansaisequoia
August 29, 2011, 6:15 pm
I have solved some cryptograms that I don't understand myself.

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"The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 13, 2009, 5:05 pm
Actually, this quote was translated from Athabascan.

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"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. "
— Alexander Smith

bansaisequoia
September 4, 2009, 1:20 am
And it's about the only way I've ever heard of you. I'm not even interested in reading your wikipedia entry.

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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
— Benjamin Franklin

bansaisequoia
July 26, 2012, 12:23 am
When the rich find that they can buy commercial time with anonymous donations, (a contingency which could not have been foreseen by Benjamin Franklin or any of the Founding Fathers) they can brainwash people into casting more votes in their favor, and that will herald the end of the Republic.

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"If you're a part of my family, I will love you violently."
— Charlie Sheen

bansaisequoia
May 1, 2012, 2:44 pm
If you're a part of my family, I must've been adopted. Or maybe they gave me the wrong name bracelet at the hospital.

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"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. "
— John Kenneth Galbraith

bansaisequoia
February 28, 2009, 2:31 am
John Kenneth Galbraith was a Harvard economist who served as an advisor in the administrations of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He was a great detractor of the supply-side economic theory, which gave America it's highest unempolyment since the Great Depression during the Reagan Administration of the 1980s. His guidance during the FDR administration helped to lead the US out of depression and back into prosperity.

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"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun."
— Frederick Buechner

haverwench
May 23, 2010, 11:54 pm
Dude, if you think that's more fun than lechery, you've got serious issues.
bansaisequoia
September 15, 2010, 5:12 pm
At least he said "possibly."

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"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
— Robert Benchley

bansaisequoia
July 10, 2010, 3:31 am
Robert Benchley's a monkey! Robert Benchley's a monkey!

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"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
— Bertrand Russell

bansaisequoia
August 8, 2009, 11:28 pm
And cannot comedy be the product of great minds? The comedies written by William Shakespeare outnumber either the histories or the tragedies. And how about Aristophanes?

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"There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 11, 2012, 7:56 pm
The mice should've tried Hickory Farms or Cracker Barrel.

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"Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
January 26, 2012, 8:33 pm
Scientists should always state the empirical evidence upon which their facts are based.

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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know."
— Dwight Eisenhower

bansaisequoia
November 20, 2010, 3:07 am
Actually, Ronald Reagan gave us 9.8% unemployment. Bill Clinton gave us a balanced budget in 1998. George W Bush gave us a $3 trillion war with a country that never attacked us, had no weapons of mass destruction, and has no more ties to Al-Qaida than Yemen. But we're not invading Yemen. North Korea (which Bush named an Axis of Evil country in his 2002 State of the Union Address) definitely has weapons of mass destruction the size of Hiroshima. But we're not invading North Korea, and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck will not give us reasons why. Think again about which party flagrantly wastes American taxpayer dollars.

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"The President is the people's lobbyist. "
— Hubert H. Humphrey

snappygranny
May 18, 2011, 5:48 pm
16 seconds, we'll see how long that stands...probably till bonsaisequoia gets it!
bansaisequoia
January 10, 2012, 7:33 pm
15 seconds, we'll see how long that stands...probably till nanrich gets it!

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "
— Victor Hugo

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 12:15 am
He qualifies it with "convinced."