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• A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, Lying, Desire

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• In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

  Christopher Lasch

  Drug, Needs, Want

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• I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Shadow, Poodles, Littles

  "Vanessa Hudgens: Hey Look! She's All Grown Up". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2010.

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• I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  "Get Your Karl Lagerfeld Teddy Bear for Just $1,500!" by Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. August 22, 2008.

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• I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

  Michio Kaku

  Christmas, Powerful, Law

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• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  Faith Hill

  Girl, Prayer, Real

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• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Blessed, Men

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• I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

  Jamie Foxx

  Christmas, Valentine, Years

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• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, News, Demand

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  Queen Latifah

  Christmas, Giving Up, Simple

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• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Grandma, Grandmother

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play.

  Peter Lerangis

  Growing Up, Kids, Games

  Peter Lerangis (2012). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

  Rachel Cohn

  Suicide, Destiny, Way

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• You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.

  Thomas Friedman

  Next Day, Riyadh, Baghdad

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• No toys in the fish tank

  Cynthia Lord

  Tanks, Fish Tanks, Fishes

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.555, Scholastic Inc.

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• I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Morning, Stars

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'I will make you brooches and toys for your delight'

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• I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Atheist, Ignorance, Thinking

  The Jew of Malta prologue (ca. 1592)

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• Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

  Loretta Lynn

  Soldier, Littles, Saws

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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• One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Imagination

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• A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

  D. A. Carson

  Years, Important, Eternity

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• The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy.
  Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it.
  Some of us break and throw it.
  Either we give extreme importance, either not enough.
  Better to stay far from extremes.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Fighting, Giving, Cry

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• Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.

  Van Jones

  Phones, Use, Laptops

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• When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

  John Travolta

  People, Littles, Window

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• I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

  Joanna Lumley

  Kitchen, Bed, Giraffe

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• It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food.

  Julia Sawalha

  Mcdonalds, Years, People

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