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Letter "R" » recreation
«The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.»
«To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.»
«The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.»
Author: James A. Michener
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Keywords:
Art of Living,
body of work,
distinction,
excellence,
hardly,
information,
labor,
leaving,
leavings,
leisure,
playing,
pursues,
re-creation,
recreation,
recreations,
the Master,
working
«Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season»
«Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.»
«To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.»
«The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
amusement,
blockhead,
blockheads,
civilized,
disbelief,
expresses,
instruction,
liar,
loudly,
rate,
re-creation,
recognizes,
recreation,
recreations,
very loudly