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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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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.
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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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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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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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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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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only 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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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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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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