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• I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

  James McBride

  Kids, Self, Building

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• In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

  Mark Lawrence

  Easy, Break, Ends

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.49, Penguin

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• I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

  Bill Bailey

  Disappointment, Chocolate, Despair

  "Bewilderness". Documentary, Comedy, 2001.

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• We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

  Richard Schickel

  Lying, Exercise, Media

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• So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.

  Roz Savage

  War, Views, Opposites

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• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Nature, Children, Stupid

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• You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

  John le Carre

  Dirty, Mean, Boys

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• Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

  Desmond Morris

  Life, Journey, Birth

  In 'Sunday Express' 3 November 1991

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• The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Drama, Light, Silence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning”, p.163

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• In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

  Joe Shuster

  Running, Games, Drawing

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• PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Noise, Irritating

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Rooms, Left

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eye's fixed on the issues, they fail to see who is behind every scene. We Jews toy with the American public as a cat toys with a mouse.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Cat, Eye, Issues

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• The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Truth, Joy

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

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• Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

  Henry Vaughan

  Running, Home, Men

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.

  Gore Vidal

  Stars, War, Long

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 861), 1993.

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• If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Giving, Firsts, Crackers

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• When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.

  Emily Procter

  Brother, My Favorite, My Brother

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• I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

  Martin Yan

  Knives, Cooking, Tools

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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. And, until we get some of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Christian, Doors, Hands

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• Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.

  Steve Blank

  Looks, Firsts, Disruption

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• God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.

  Kevin Maurer

  Religious, Break, Instruction

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