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• Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

  Colin Quinn

  Hands, Years, Mind

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• I can remember, with unsteady feet,
  Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure
  In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long
  Have lost their power to please; which when I see them,
  Raise only now a melancholy wish
  I were the little trifler once again,
  Who could be pleas'd so lightly.

  Robert Southey

  Flower, Feet, Long

  Robert Southey (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)”, p.306

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• A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

  Judith Martin

  Men, Feminist, Upset

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• Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.

  Amy Poehler

  Hurt, Fun, Worry

  "Amy Poehler: 'I loved cocaine but eventually hated it' - actress opens up about her drugs past" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. October 14, 2014.

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• I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.

  Andy Partridge

  Appreciation, Growing Up, Kids

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• The greatest sex toy ever invented may be the telephone. Sometimes there's nothing more erotic than a disembodied voice, no question more tantalizing than a whispered 'What are you wearing?' Especially when you can make up the answer. On the phone your hair always looks great, your legs are always shaved, your worst pair of underwear becomes a silk negligee.

  Meghan Daum

  Sex, Voice, Phones

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• Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Loss, Games

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• From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Stars, Truth, Age

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• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Country, Children, Real

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• The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Sports, Character, Men

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.35

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• My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

  William Maxwell

  Daughter, Children, Typewriters

  William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Christian, Doors, Hands

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• Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our alms.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christmas, Giving, Important

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• The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on...This was the greatest surprise for everyone.

  Max Delbruck

  Children, Dna, Years

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• TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything-at which point, the process would start all over.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Children, Growing Up, Fall

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.63, Penguin

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• Language is the best, best toy.

  Jerry Holkins

  Language

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• In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around a cardboard track: The toy car was yours, and you invested it with importance and enhanced it with fantasy and pitied it because it was small, like you were. Such games were weapons against the ennui of endless Saturdays.

  Roger Ebert

  Kids, Games, Track

  Roger Ebert (2006). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.801, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Animal, Elephants

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.

  Elvis Costello

  Country, Children, Rocks

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• When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for “cookie.” Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z.

  Ji Lee

  Children, Fun, Block

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• What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.

  Ilana Mercer

  Apology, Ideas, Evil

  "Obama: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry". www.wnd.com. November 15, 2013.

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• The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Boys, Men, Differences

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• My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.

  Guy Fieri

  Giving Up, Philosophy, Stills

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• Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

  John Dewey

  Past, History, Imagination

  John Dewey (1970). “Characters and events: popular essays in social and political philosophy”

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• Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kings, Doctors, Crow

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