marbles
Speech parts
1. marbles - Noun
2. marbles - Verb
Meaning
a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
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As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.
Right. I can't speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party. Ppl aren't human any more. If you're black & a Democrat tells u to shove marbles up ur ass, you simply have to. If another party tells u to look out for that bus, stand there & get hit.
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.