Amusement Quotes
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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It's awesome. It's like an amusement park.
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Drama as an art is quite unspeakable, although some old plays are admirable as a form of vulgar amusement.
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Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
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If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it. ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."
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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
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The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.
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I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action.
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A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
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Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.
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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
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The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.
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The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.
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I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.
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All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life.
