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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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Human Rights Activist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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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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People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
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