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One faces the future with one's past.
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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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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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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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
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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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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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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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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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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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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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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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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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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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