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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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