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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.
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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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
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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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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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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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