Things that Bansai left for us

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"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. "
— Douglas Macarthur

bansaisequoia
September 30, 2009, 1:34 am
Is it liberty if you're in chains?

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"To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language."
— George Santayana

bansaisequoia
January 7, 2011, 12:58 am
Yabba gabbish ipple?

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"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2012, 5:12 pm
If the trees were ents, we could say, "Run, Forrest, run!" But ents do everything slowly. ( 'I have brought you about seventy thousand ent-strides, but what that comes to in the measurement of your land I do not know.'--Treebeard)

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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
— Abraham Lincoln

bansaisequoia
August 27, 2009, 9:48 pm
Then how did George W Bush get to be my president?

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"Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?"
— Edith Sitwell

gryhnd51
August 15, 2009, 6:47 pm
my favorite quote for sure!
bansaisequoia
August 25, 2009, 11:46 pm
"Where the satyrs are chattering, nymphs with their flattering glimpse of the forest enhance All the beauty of marrow and cucumber narrow and Ceres will join in the dance. Where the satyrs can flatter the flat-leaved fruit and the gherkin green and the marrow, Said Queen Venus, 'Silenus, we'll settle between us the gourd and the cucumber narrow."-- Dame Edith Sitwell (1887--1964)

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"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
— Dan Quayle

bansaisequoia
February 6, 2011, 5:46 pm
If we put Dan in exile.

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"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act."
— Talmud

bansaisequoia
April 12, 2010, 8:18 pm
We have rebelled.

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"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. "
— H.L. Mencken

pootie49
March 30, 2009, 6:58 pm
and voila cryptograms.org
sonofcarc
July 1, 2009, 5:41 pm
Who -- Shakespeare?
maradnu
July 3, 2009, 1:28 am
Mencken talking about himself again?
bansaisequoia
September 7, 2009, 12:19 am
John Bartlett?

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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. "
— Napoleon Hill

bonsaisekuoia
February 25, 2010, 3:02 pm
Therefore, if I don't acknowledge my limitations, I'm omniscient.

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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Note: The colon was not in the original puzzle. It has since been added.]

saipanwriter
July 29, 2011, 2:40 am
It seems like there should be some form of punctuation between the word poetry and the rest of the phrase.
bansaisequoia
March 12, 2012, 6:30 pm
This doesn't seem to be an example of the best words in the best order.

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"Fools gawp at masterpieces - wise men set out to outdo masterpieces. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 7:33 pm
gawp?
Lurker
September 4, 2009, 2:28 pm
Webster's: To stare open-mouthed; gawk or gape

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"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
— Jeanette Winterson

bansaisequoia
May 22, 2010, 3:35 pm
I've undergone years of intense therapy after having seen unique snowflakes as a child.

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"Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies."
— Ann Landers

peejay
July 26, 2009, 4:08 pm
Except for Benjamin Button.
bonszaisequioa
February 22, 2010, 11:31 am
And Merlin in "The Once And Future King."

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"The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner."
— Hebrew Proverb

bansaisequoia
January 31, 2012, 8:53 pm
I'm the kind of man who's a cruel beast to his beast.

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"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. "
— Thomas Carlyle

bansaisequoia
July 28, 2011, 2:39 pm
If I'm lucky, I may receive such remuneration before retirement.