"Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric."

-- Brian Sutton-Smith

#Play Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Behaviour Quotes

“What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.”
“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, â€œMusic.”
“She should want to see me. If I had said how I feel about her, she would miss me even more. All this time, I've been breaking her heart by keeping her wait, yet I can't still appear before her eyes. I never want to see her cry anymore. Even if it means I no longer exist in her heart. How immature of me, right? -Kudou Shinichi”
“Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag
“Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.”

Source : New Scientist, Vol. 21, No. 374, January 16, 1964.
“When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics”
“A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.”

Source : Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.61, Pan Macmillan
“Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.”

Source : Joe Haldeman (2006). “A Separate War and Other Stories”, p.108, Penguin

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