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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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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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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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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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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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