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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

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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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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

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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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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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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Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: November 25th, 1893

Died: May 22nd, 1970

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