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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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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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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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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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