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“I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.”

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Author:Taylor Phinney

“I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.”

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Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.”

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Book:Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth

Source: Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth

“Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith

“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”

“It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.”

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Book:Fights, Games, and Debates

Source: Fights, Games, and Debates

“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.”

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Author:Alain Finkielkraut

“I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.”

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Author:Charles Walters

“Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.”

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Author:Margot Robbie

“Social media has definitely changed the game for me. I am able to connect to my fans on twitter and interact with them, daily. YouTube has been a game changer as well - people around the world have been exposed to my comedy through my YouTube channel.”

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Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.”

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Author:Margaret Case Harriman

“Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?”

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Author:Randall Munroe

“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.”

“If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.”

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Author:Chris DeWolfe

“I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to the hard work that has made them possible. But in the face of threats to humanitys future on the one hand and the extraordinary potential of mankind on the other, at some point we must ask: are we capable of more?”

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Author:Justin Rosenstein

“The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.”

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Author:Alan Watts