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  • Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
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  • I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.
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  • Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.
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  • Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
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  • The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.
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  • Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
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