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A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine. Brian Sutton-Smith

Seen Machine Both Toy Intellectual

What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression. Brian Sutton-Smith

Behavior Observe Often Just Really Aggression Teachers Many Playful Violent

Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage. Brian Sutton-Smith

Beautiful Marriage Possibilities Kinds Over Make-Believe Stimulation Hits Map Playful

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself. Brian Sutton-Smith

Character Too Much Believe Vain Too Willful Weakness Willingness About More Consumerism Instead Like Involves Venture Sound Passionate Itself Often Human Being Which Fantasy Much Theories Many Even Play

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish. Brian Sutton-Smith

Rubbish Assumption Has-Been Adult Been Decades Children Played

It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress. Brian Sutton-Smith

Mistake Progress Try Deliberately Developmental Use Foster Play

The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults. Brian Sutton-Smith

Kid Tend Adult Same Who Play Violent

One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind. Brian Sutton-Smith

Great Reflection Mind Imagination Further Responses Kinds Objects Area Fact Through Adult Developed Allowing Toy Toys Sort Where Belief Novelty Activity Play Thinks Imaginations

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. Carl Jung

Youth Sometimes Wine Clear Advancing Does Always Years Grows

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard. Carol Gilligan

Me People Voice Felt Said Were Heard Times Challenged Hardest

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble. Carol Gilligan

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' Cesare Lombroso

God Alone Once Poem Both He Knew Knows Passage His Questioned Replied Regarding Meaning Meaning Of Meant Now

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. Cesare Lombroso

Great Genius Single Birth Hundred Great Genius More Equivalent Than Appearance

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless. Charles D. Broad

Natural Made Philosophy Would Would-Be Clear Because Sciences Method Different Experiments Natural Sciences Should Useless Now Why Utterly

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing. Charles D. Broad

Nothing See Something Colour Sound Am Hear Aware

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word. Charles D. Broad

Word Long Philosophy Say Tries Phrase Some Clear Simply Concepts Concerned Up Familiar Substitute Mean Meanings

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects. Charles D. Broad

Natural Pure Liable Minds Neither Physical Objects Could He Know Scientist Were Nor Exist Forget Them Act

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are. Dale Archer

You Intelligence Key Gift Beauty Understanding Way Define Charisma Physical Rather Small Emotional Small Part Emotional Intelligence Part Like How Brains Prowess Person Any Just Use Used Who Asset

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids. Dale Archer

Parenting You School Car Drive Mandatory Think Alcohol Ought Kids High License Able Classes High School Give Parent More Put Emphasis Than Explain Should Who Starting

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