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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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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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 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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