33 ordspråk av Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch
A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines
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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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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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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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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
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Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm
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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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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
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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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