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Pearl S Buck Inspirational Quotes (133)

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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
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French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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All birth is unwilling.
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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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Nothing is menial where there is love.
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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