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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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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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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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It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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The rich are always afraid.
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The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
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All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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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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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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