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Love dies only when growth stops.
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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Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
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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 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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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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The rich are always afraid.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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