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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.
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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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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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 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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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