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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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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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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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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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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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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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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 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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There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.
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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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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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Love alone could waken love.
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