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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
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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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.
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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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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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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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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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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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you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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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 older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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