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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
Biographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Naturalist
Theatre Critic
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Knoxville
Tennessee
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Wants
War
Men
Everywhere

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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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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 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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