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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.
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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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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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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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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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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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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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