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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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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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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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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 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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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