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"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
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"So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience."
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"The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint."
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"I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time."
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"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
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"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."
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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
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"If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived."
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"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
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"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."
History
"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
Cultural
"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
Power
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
Attitude
"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."
Faith
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
Age
"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."
Life
"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."
Wisdom
"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"
Fun
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