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People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage. - Brian Sutton-Smith
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