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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.
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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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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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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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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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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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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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