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• Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

  Lynda Barry

  Growing Up, Fun, Mixing

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• I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, Knowing, Fire

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• I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Wall, Believe, Needs

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• I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Thinking, Depth

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Change, England, Serious

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could DoWithout" (1949)

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• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  Rachel Nichols

  Growing Up, Thinking, Laughing

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• No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Should Have, Phases

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• In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

  Gene Tierney

  Dream, Men, Serious

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• You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Land

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• His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Names, Mountain

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Art, Memories, Discovery

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• I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

  Tino Sehgal

  Art, Entertainment, Done

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• We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.

  William H. Gass

  Liars, Mean, Wings

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• And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.

  William Shatner

  Attitude, Struggle, Joy

  "How William Shatner Changed the World". Documentary, Sci-Fi, 2005.

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• Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

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• A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Good Woman, Passionate

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• If you are not serious, people will sense it.

  Bela Lugosi

  People, Serious, Ifs

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• A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Creativity, Ideas, Imagination

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• Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Plato, Asking, Speech

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Soul, Disease

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• Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Laughing, Littles

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• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strength, Running, Business

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

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• Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Writing, Two

  "By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades".

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• It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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