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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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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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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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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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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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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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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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