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“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
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“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.”
Andre Breton quotes (French Poet, Critic, Editor and co-Founder of surrealism, 1896-1966)
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“A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.”
Thomas Love Peacock quotes (English Author and Satirist. 1785-1866)

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“To me, film right now is dormant. It's a sleeping giant. It's the plaything of corporations. The people who determine what American film is today are no different from high rollers who go to Las Vegas. They just want to take all the money and put it on one big number and roll the dice on that number and if it craps out, next number. Next case.”
William Friedkin quotes (American Film Director, Producer and Writer best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s. b.1939)

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“Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.”
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“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

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“Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes (English lyrical Poet, Critic and Philosopher. 1772-1834)

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“Toys have become commodities instead of playthings. The stampede to collect Beanie Babies is the latest twist in the toy industry's plot to turn children into avaricious monsters and adults into clawing harpies.”
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“Great princes have great playthings.”
William Cowper quotes (English Poet One of the most widely read English poets of his day, 1731-1800)

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“Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.”

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“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists / in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.”
Henri Frederic Amiel quotes (Swiss writer known for his masterpiece Journal intime, 1821-1881)

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“We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.”
Francis Herbert Bradley quotes

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