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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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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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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
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