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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

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
Writer
Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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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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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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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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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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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
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If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
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Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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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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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
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