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• Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.

  Stephen Crane

  Kings, Children, Fate

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1312, Library of America

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• As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Creativity, Successful

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• When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty. As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

  Aerin Lauder

  Girl, Fun, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

  Aristotle

  Children, Growth, Mind

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

  Robin Thicke

  Kids, Car, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Stupid, Dirty

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• It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Boys, Teach, Decoration

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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• I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

  Debi Thomas

  Mom, Doctors, My Mom

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• It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Country, Dog, Children

  "A New Testament". Book by Sherwood Anderson, 1927.

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• My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

  Dan Harmon

  Dog, Crazy, Cat

  Twitter post from May 21, 2012

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• People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

  Martina Navratilova

  Football, Team, Differences

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

  Jock Sturges

  Views, Cameras, Use

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• Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

  Pete Townshend

  Running, Boys, Littles

  Song: Rough Boys, Album: Empty Glass, 2006

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• I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

  Rick Baker

  Kids, Play, Guy

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• Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sports, Talent, Duty

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• Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.

  Heidi Klum

  Mom, Ideas, Snacks

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• What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

  Elie Wiesel

  Fall, Men, Allies

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.97, Schocken

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• It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

  Lewis Mumford

  Writing, Men, Would Be

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• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Nature and the Method of Nature”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and a child. Dove, too, is a toy or possibly a dog as I lead her through the throngs of people.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dog, Children, Night

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• Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

  Jodie Foster

  Mean, Eye, Boys

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• Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Prayer, Children

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397

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• Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Wise, Women, Passion

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• Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Serious Business, Hours

  Walter Scott (1845). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.376

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• In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!

  Carlo Collodi

  Country, Sunday, Vacation

  Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.229, Lulu Press, Inc

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