Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
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We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
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And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
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'Naked! So I can see no pranks and ruses.'
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When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it was a master's or a Ph.D., if you were a citizen in one domain, you were a traveler in the other.
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It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.
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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
