Octavio Paz
Poet, Essayist
"The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love."
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Toys
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Tim Berners-Lee
Computer Scientist
"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy."
Katie McGrath
Actress
"I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist."
D. A. Carson
Theologian
"A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important."
Elspeth Huxley
Author
"They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys."
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"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
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"Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich."
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"As men get older, the toys get more expensive."
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"I've never been good at sharing my toys."
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"How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them."
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"No toys in the fish tank"
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"Men are ruled by toys."
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"Do you have any toy train schedules?"
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"I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up."
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"Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good."
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"Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones."
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"If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best."
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"Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned."
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"The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man."
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"Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys."
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"Bath toys are reserved only for the oldest, more lethal vampires."
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"Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell."
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"He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them."
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"Sports is the toy department of life."
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"Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail."
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