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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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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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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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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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
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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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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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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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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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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 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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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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