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Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow ...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot ...

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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

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As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--bec...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the ...

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Jane WagnerThe Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never tr...

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In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Play is the work of childhood.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge respon...

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Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real ...

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If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special func...

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Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in...

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Johan HuizingaHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple c...

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Johan HuizingaHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple c...

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Johan HuizingaHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than v...

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It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of fri...

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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched t...

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Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without f...

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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing ...

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A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can pl...

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Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of...

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I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense ...

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as toug...

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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning an...

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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street an...

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You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that ...

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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what pos...

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There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you und...

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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressi...

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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I ...

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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious ...

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Mama: But something might happen. Something that might change everything. Who knows what it might be...

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Mama:...you can keep trying. You can get brave and try some more. You don't have to give up.Jessie: ...

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How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here al...

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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

The men in grey were powerless to meet this challenge head-on. Unable to detach the children from Mo...

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We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois wa...

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Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

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Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask chi...

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Michio KakuThe Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity ...

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You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry ...

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It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, g...

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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very i...

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It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I...

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My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when...

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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has...

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JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who...

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My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked clas...

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DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc ...

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And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some G...

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My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then ...

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Life must be lived as play.

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive aro...

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It is a happy talent to know how to play.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Play is just another version of work

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Ray KurzweilThe Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante ...

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Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...

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Life is more fun if you play games.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Tou...

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Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors...

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, resp...

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One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from the...

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It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a...

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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very swe...

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Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do y...

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I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments ...

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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

Cascando"why not merely the despaired ofoccasion ofwordshedis it not better abort than be barrenthe ...

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Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow c...

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Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul...

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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. B...

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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al...

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I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the e...

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With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. Tha...

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I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the b...

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I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.