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Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes: A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
         

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.


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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.



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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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The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.



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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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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.



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.

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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.



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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.



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