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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.
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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Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
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