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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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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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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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 cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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