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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.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Hillsboro
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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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