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Letter "P" » Play
«Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.»
«Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying»
«She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.»
«Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.»
«Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.»
«Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.»
Author: Johan Huizinga
(Historian)
| About:
Play
| Keywords:
adaptive, some other, special act, subordinate, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating, uniquely
«Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.»
Author: Joseph Chilton Pearce
| About:
Play
| Keywords:
highest, humankind, intelligence, unfold, unfolded
«Play is the exultation of the possible.»
«Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.»
«Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.»
Author: Robert Fulghum
| About:
Play,
Politeness,
Relationships
| Keywords:
fair, Fair Play, hit, sorry
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