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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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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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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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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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The rich are always afraid.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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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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