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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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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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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Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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 the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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 wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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