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Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes: The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.
         

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.


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The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

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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.





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