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• Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Worry, Despair

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.208

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• Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
  of the human spirit.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Purpose, Spirit, Glory

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• We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Kids

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• That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that moral foundation will lead to social chaos and destruction.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Foundation, Different

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• We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

  Izaak Walton

  Judging, Drs, Berries

  The Compleat Angler, 2nd ed., pt. 1, ch. 5 (1655)

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• People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Pyramids, People, Needs

  Marion D. Hanks (1974). “The Gift of Self”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Fatigue, Particular

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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• Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Prayer, Kind, Enjoyment

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• How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Opportunity, Pyramids, Joy

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• Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

  Gloria Whelan

  Team, Bird, Balls

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• As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.

  Anna Halprin

  Art, Healing, Our World

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• On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Children, Block, Creativity

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• A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

  Will Rogers

  Work, Justice, Want

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Men, Grace

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2655, Delphi Classics

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• I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

  Carlos Alazraqui

  Jobs, Real, College

  Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. July 11, 2006.

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• My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.

  Chauncey Depew

  Home, Dinner, Care

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• We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Immature, Age, Normal

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• I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

  David Deutsch

  Play, Interesting, People

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• Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Sports, Hunting, Doors

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• I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.

  Ed Rendell

  Thinking, Pennsylvania, Forests

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• Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Work, My Favorite, Form

  Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.21, e-artnow

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• It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.

  David Toms

  Seems

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• In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

  Walt Disney

  Sports, Fun, Should Have

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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• A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Time, Real, War

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• The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink as well as the values of fish and wildlife, scenic, and outdoor recreation resources. Although often measureless in commercial terms, these values must be preserved by a program that will guarantee America some semblance of her great heritage of beautiful rivers.

  Frank Church

  Beautiful, Rivers, America

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