"It is disastrous to own more of anything……" — Joseph Wood Krutch
"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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81 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself…
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face…
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened…
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any,…
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that…
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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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…
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or…
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Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through…
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
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My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.
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Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
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If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When people are like, Life is good, I go, No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected…
— Sandra Bullock
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Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.
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The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
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Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be…
— John Henry Jowett
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an…
— Lewis Mumford
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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