Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.
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Trivia and Those Tripping Over It
I'm not one to trip over anything to keep it repeated.
Some trip and want it to be revisited.
As if in the doing,
A remembering of it...
Satisfies a preoccupation of a score to settle.
While basking in the glow of immaturity.
And self inflicting wounds...
Usually occurs between kids bumping into each other,
While at play.
To consciously do it to oneself is not mentally healthy.
Especially if some of those playmates have aged,
With the leaving behind of trivia and those tripping over it...
To explore a more broadened aspect of a life,
Rapidly in change mode.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter.
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
quote by Kahlil Gibran
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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
quote by Sidney Poitier
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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
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But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
quote by Michael Shermer
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It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
quote by Roger Bannister
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
quote by Bertrand Russell
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
quote by Steven Spielberg
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
quote by Irving Babbitt
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
quote by Robert Morgan
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer in The Passionate State of Mind (1954)
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Anna My Friend
Enjoy the works of your hands and come to me,
For the tears of the oppressed are seen every now and then;
But i will let Anna my friend stay with you,
For the multitude of preoccupation creates a dream.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
quote by Wynton Marsalis
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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Play To Play
Play to play
Not for home
Not for bed...
Play to
The ground...
Play with
Ball and the bat
OR run and play...
Live your body
Good for health
Have the nice...!
Twice the day
Morning and
Evening go to play...
That is secerat
Of your life
Understand
To try with
Play to play
Day by day....!
poem by Otteri Selvakumar
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
quote by Arthur Erickson
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