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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.
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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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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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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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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