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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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Nothing is menial where there is love.
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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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It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
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War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.
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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 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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There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
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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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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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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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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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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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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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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.
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