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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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