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«I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.»
«Toys have become commodities instead of playthings. The stampede to collect Beanie Babies is the latest twist in the toy industry's plot to turn children into avaricious monsters and adults into clawing harpies.»
Author: Beth Copeland Vargo
| Keywords:
avaricious, beanie, claw, clawing, collect, commodities, harpies, harpy, plaything, playthings, plot, The Toy, toy, toy industry, twist
«The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
danger, dangerous, in play, man, most, out of danger, play, played out, plaything, playthings, play out, play up, reason, the true, things, true, two, wants, woman
«Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.»
«A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.»
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
furnishes, plaything, playthings, quotations
«To me, film right now is dormant. It's a sleeping giant. It's the plaything of corporations. The people who determine what American film is today are no different from high rollers who go to Las Vegas. They just want to take all the money and put it on one big number and roll the dice on that number and if it craps out, next number. Next case.»
Author: William Friedkin
(Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Corporations, craps, dice, dormant, giant, just in case, Las, Las Vegas, on that, plaything, playthings, put to sleep, rolled into one, rollers, Sleeping Giant
«Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Old Boys, plaything, playthings
«Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
of age, plaything, playthings, privileges, retain
«Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bedside, deathly, plaything, playthings, quaint
«Great princes have great playthings.»
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