Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.
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There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
