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Pearl S Buck Inspirational Quotes (134)

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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Men of action, whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of men of action.
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
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The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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