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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
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To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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