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"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

Plato

"The truly great advances of this generation will be made by those who can make outrageous connections, and only a mind which knows how to play can do that."

Nagle Jackson

"The opposite of play is not work, it is depression."

Brian Sutton-Smith

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THE BOOK

Authors Dr. Stuart Brown, MD and Christopher Vaughan, publish their new book on play. (more information)