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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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Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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