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Carl Jung quote: "The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung
C. S. Lewis quote: "I was allowed to play at philosophy no longer."
I was allowed to play at philosophy no longer. C. S. Lewis
Oscar Wilde quote: "Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has..."
Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part. Oscar Wilde
Michael Jordan quote: "I play to win, whether during practice or a real game."
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. Michael Jordan
You have responsibilities, now, Bob. You must lose this naive understanding of violence! You are embarrassin' me in front of the lads! You can't play by their rules or they'll win unfailingly! You don't engage in courtly play-fightin' with one such as this. You get a great friggin' tree-branch and keep hittin' him with it until he dies. Neal Stephenson
Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it! Lynda Barry
Evan Esar quote: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow"
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow Evan Esar
We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house. Annie Dillard
I profoundly believer, as Grammen's experience over twenty years has shown, that personal gains is not the only possible fuel for free enterprise. Social goals can replace greed as a powerful motivational force. Social-consciousness-driven enterprises can be formidable competitors for the greed-based enterprises. I believe that if we play our cards right, social-consciousness-driven enterprises can do very well in the marketplace. Muhammad Yunus
Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence George Orwell
Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I... Katherine Dunn
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas. H. L. Mencken
Amy Tan quote: "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show..."
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess."- Ch. 5 Amy Tan
... it is no longer an organism that functions but a BwO that is constructed. No longer are there acts to explain, dreams or phantasies to interpret, childhood memories to recall, words to make signify; instead there are colors and sounds, becomings and intensities (and when you become-dog, don't ask if the dog you are playing with is a dream or a reality, if it is 'your goddam mother' or something else entirely). Gilles Deleuze
we must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice we must not act without. Who am i-though i have the power to do it- to punish and reward, playing with men's destinies? Ursula K. Le Guin

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