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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
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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the heart never grows old.
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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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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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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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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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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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