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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
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
Translator
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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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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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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the heart never grows old.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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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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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
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